User:Maansak/East Oakland, Oakland, California

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History [edit]
East Oakland is a section of Oakland that has experienced many changes to its population as the West attracted immigrants in search of employment. Oakland was declared a city in 1852 where it was prominently populated by people who made it to the west during the Gold Rush. The dominant races that had relocated to the East Bay during the late 1840s were Caucasian, Chinese, Mexican, and African American.

Acupuncture Brought to Oakland

Acupuncture was first brought to the Oakland/Berkeley community by activist and physician Dr. Tolbert Small in 1980 *cite*. Dr. Small's clinic is currently still operating in East Oakland *cite*. Dr. Small learned about this form of alternative medicine when he was in China in 1972. Later, as the director of the George Jackson People’s Free Medical Clinic in Berkeley, he brought acupuncture to under-resourced communities. Over the past five decades, he estimates he has treated thousands of underserved patients in the San Francisco Bay Area with acupuncture in his general practice.