Descendants of enslaved people want land seized by the state returned and recognition of the gold rush's rich, and largely ignored, Black history.During the final years of the Great Depression, officials in California set out to build a state park to commemorate the centennial of the discovery of gold in 1848, an event that set off the largest mass migration in U.S. history and transformed the American West.
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