Today, the conversation about gentrification in the Bay Area has reached a fever pitch. But few know the deep history of San Francisco’s Fillmore district, which was a thriving black neighborhood populated by jazz and blues clubs up until the 1960s, when redevelopment projects put an end to an era. Elizabeth Pepin Silva and Lewis Watts, authors of the book Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era, graciously gave us access to the photographs they compiled for their history of the neighborhood.
