He writes in Chicanos in California, "They lost everything when squatters cut down their fruit trees, killed their cattle, destroyed their buildings, and even fenced off the roads leading to the rancho. and organized drug gangs such as the "69 Mob", with increases in arrests, prosecutions, and imprisonment. The most rainfall in one month was 15.35 inches (390 mm) in January 1911. In 1991, such an episode allowed the catastrophic Oakland Hills fire to spread and consume many homes. In 1906, the city's population doubled with refugees made homeless after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. [40] Also in 1916, the Fageol Motor Company chose East Oakland for their first factory, manufacturing farming tractors from 1918 to 1923. Originating in Oakland, Kaiser Permanente is an HMO started in 1942, during World War II, by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser to provide medical care for Kaiser Shipyards workers. [118] The Port of Oakland handles 99% of all containerized goods moving through Northern California, representing $41 billion worth of international trade. 1917. Oakland is in the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay. [51] Also migrating to the area during this time were many Mexican Americans from southwestern states such as New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado. [23] Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, many San Francisco citizens moved to Oakland, enlarging the city's population, increasing its housing stock, and improving its infrastructure. It was one of the earliest seaports to switch to containerization and to intermodal container transfer,[208] thereby displacing the Port of San Francisco, which never modernized its waterfront. David Goll. In 1868, the Central Pacific constructed the Oakland Long Wharf at Oakland Point, the site of today's Port of Oakland.[33]. Valued at $100 million in 1943, Oakland's canning industry was its second-most-valuable war contribution after shipbuilding. Occupancy is 74%, while RevPAR (Revenue Per Available Room) increased by 14%, the highest increase of any big city in the western region of the United States. Oakland is also part of Alameda County, for which the Government of Alameda County is defined and authorized under the California Constitution, California law, and the Charter of the County of Alameda. The Black Lives Matter and related protests for social justice in Oakland, San Francisco, and Marin continue a long tradition of Bay Area protest. Thousands of protestors took to the streets, with many arrests, including singer and peace activist Joan Baez! While San Francisco spearheaded the the national counter-culture moment of the late '60s and Berkeley led the country in student protest over the years, Oakland - once referred to by the New York Times as the "last refuge of radical America" - has been the epicenter of protest movements on issues of military desegregation, civil rights, economic inequity, racial injustice, police brutality and beyond. [138] In "America's Most Hipster Cities", Oakland took the number-5 spot, cited for luring San Francisco "hippies" into the city. [98], In 2007 approximately 15.3 percent of families and 17.0 percent of the general population were below the poverty line, including 27.9 percent of those under age 18 and 13.1 percent of those age 65 or over. [111][112], As of 2020, the San Francisco-Oakland Metro shows indications of having the greatest intensity of gentrification nationally, with over 31% of eligible neighborhoods gentrifying. [92], The greater Oakland area[specify] has the fifth largest cluster of "elite zip codes" ranked by the number of households with the highest combination of income and education. [157] Oakland's mayor is limited to two terms. For other uses, see, Oakland skyline, with the eastern span of the, 94601–94615, 94617-94624, 94649, 94659–94662, 94666, 2018 United States Census American Community Survey estimates. During this period Oakland did not have sufficient health facilities, so some of the infected patients were treated at home. Oakland was one of the worst affected cities in California that was impacted by the plague epidemic. The most recent census data compiled in 2007 before gasoline price spikes in 2008, show 24.3 percent of Oaklanders used public transportation, walked or used "other means" to commute to work, not including telecommuting,[197] with 17 percent of Oakland households being "car free" and/or statistically categorized as having "no vehicles available. The Cook Partisan Voting Index of Congressional District 13, which includes Oakland and Berkeley, is D+40, making it the most Democratic congressional district in California and the fourth most Democratic district in the US. African Americans were part of the Great Migration by which five million persons left the South, mostly for the West, from 1940 to 1970. Oakland's rise to industrial prominence, and its subsequent need for a seaport, led to the digging of a shipping and tidal channel in 1902. The metropolitan area is served by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) from eight stations in Oakland. Alameda County Medical Center is operated by the county and provides medical services to county residents, including the medically indigent who do not have health insurance. Especially insidious were the actions of attorney Horace Carpentier, who tricked Vicente Peralta into signing a 'lease' which turned out to be a mortgage against the 19,000-acre rancho. 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