The city of Salinas is at once rural, and urban. This newly published, broad-ranging history tells a complex story of community-building in a multiracial, multiethnic city where diversity has been a cornerstone of civic identity and essential for maintaining the local workforce. Drawing on extensive original research, including oral histories and never-before-seen archives of local business groups, tracing Salinas’s nineteenth-century beginnings as the economic engine of California’s Central Coast up through the impact of Covid-19.

Dr. Carol Lynn McKibben is an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, teaching for the Department of History and Urban Studies at Stanford University since 2006. She has also engaged in many community-based research projects on the Monterey Peninsula for thirty years.

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Questions? Contact Cathy at CathleenA [at] ci.salinas.ca.us