Most of the land currently belonging to this city was owned in the 19th century by the Peralta brothers Antonio Maria and Jose Vicente, who inherited it from their father, Luis Maria Peralta.
Most of the land currently belonging to this city was owned in the 19th century by the Peralta brothers Antonio Maria and Jose Vicente, who inherited it from their father, Luis Maria Peralta. Frank Kanning Mott was known as "The Mayor who built" this city, which in the 1960s became the headquarters of a corporation spun off from a shipyard concern in a neighboring city, Kaiser Permanente. The first transcontinental mail delivery flight, piloted by Eddie Rickenbacker and Burt Acosta, finished its trip in this city. Bobby Seale and Huey Newton (*) founded the Black Panthers in this city on the campus of Merritt College, which is located here. An Occupy movement in this city began on its Frank Ogawa Plaza, which the protestors symbollically renamed after Oscar Grant, who had recently been killed by a police officer in nearby Fruitvale. That movement clashed with the first Asian-American mayor of a major city, Jean Quan; other mayors of this city have included Jerry Brown, who served two terms from 1999 to 2007. For 10 points, identify this California city across the bay from San Francisco, the seat of Alameda County
Most of the land currently belonging to this city was owned in the 19th century by the Peralta brothers Antonio Maria and Jose Vicente, who inherited it from their father, Luis Maria Peralta.
Oakland, California