Many of the city's more affluent residents, both black and white, left the city after the war, moving to neighboring Alameda, Berkeley, Albany and El Cerrito to the north ; to San Leandro, Hayward, Castro Valley and Fremont in Southern Alameda County ; and to the newly developing East Bay suburbs, Orinda, Lafayette, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek and Concord.

The Castro District, commonly referenced as The Castro, is a neighborhood in Eureka Valley in San Francisco, California.

Although the greater gay community was, and is, concentrated in the Castro, many gay people live in the surrounding residential areas bordered by Corona Heights, the Mission District, Noe Valley, Twin Peaks, and Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods.

Castro Street, which originates a few blocks north at the intersection of Divisadero and Waller Streets, runs south through Noe Valley, crossing the 24th Street business district and ending as a continuous street a few blocks farther south as it moves toward the Glen Park neighborhood.

The neighborhood now known as the Castro was created in 1887 when the Market Street Railway Company built a line linking Eureka Valley to downtown.

The neighborhood, previously known as Eureka Valley, became known as the Castro, after the landmark theatre by that name near the corner of Castro and Market Streets.

Part of State Route 238 until 1983, and still considered the same route ( part of Route 238 ) by the California Department of Transportation ( Caltrans ), it connects Interstate 580 in Castro Valley ( where SR 238 continues south ) with Interstate 880 in San Leandro.

Although the I-238 goes in an east – west direction from Castro Valley to San Leandro, Caltrans officially signs it as a north – south freeway since the rest of State Route 238 is more north – south.

The south ( or east ) terminus of I-238 is at its interchange with Interstate 580 and SR 238 in Castro Valley.

I-238 and I-880 is used as an alternate truck route between Castro Valley and Oakland ; trucks over 4. 5 tons are prohibited through the latter on I-580.

Castro Valley is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Alameda County, California, United States.

With the arrival of Europeans, Castro Valley was part of the land granted to Mission San Jose in 1797.

The area Castro Valley now occupies was part of the extensive colony of New Spain in what was the state of Alta California.

Castro Valley is named after Don Guillermo Castro, who was a soldier in the Mexican army and a rancher.

Castro Valley was part of the original < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 28, 000 acre ( 110 km² )</ span > land grant given to Castro, called Rancho San Lorenzo.

This land grant included Hayward, San Lorenzo, and Castro Valley, including Crow Canyon, Cull Canyon, and Palomares Canyons.

During the 1940s and 1950s, Castro Valley was known for its chicken ranches.

Lake Chabot lies at the north of Castro Valley.

The eastern hills of Castro Valley constitute the headwaters of the San Lorenzo Creek watershed and the origin of several creeks that flow into San Lorenzo Creek: Bolinas, Castro Valley, Chabot, Crow, Cull, Eden, Hollis, Kelly Canyon, Norris, and Palomares creeks.

The I. A. P. A. found itself driven from journalism into politics as it did its best to bring about the downfall of the Castro Government and the return of the Cuban press to the freedom it knew before Batista's dictatorship began in 1952.

I am sure that Castro was happy, too, about that support.

Worried about his legitimate grandson's life, and the growing power of Castile within Portugal's borders, Afonso ordered the murder of Inês de Castro in 1355.

During the crisis, Fidel Castro wrote Khrushchev a letter about the prospect that the " imperialists " would be " extremely dangerous " if they responded militarily to the Soviet stationing of nuclear missiles aimed at US territory, less than 90 miles away in Cuba.

On MinnPost. com, Ventura's agent, Steve Schwartz, describes the book thus: " is revealing why he left politics and discussing the disastrous war in Iraq, why he sees our two-party system as corrupt, and what Fidel Castro told him about who was really behind the assassination of President Kennedy.

Agriculture in Castro county revived during the 1940s, however, and by 1941 about 200 people were living there.

Objective: The purpose of the program outlined herein is to bring about the replacement of the Castro regime with one more devoted to the true interests of the Cuban people and more acceptable to the U. S. in such a manner to avoid any appearance of U. S. intervention.

At about 11: 00, Premier Fidel Castro issued a statement over Cuba's nationwide network saying that the invaders, members of the exiled Cuban revolutionary front, have come to destroy the revolution and take away the dignity and rights of men.

During the 19th century, one of Brazil's greatest poets, the Bahian abolitionist poet and playwright Castro Alves, a native of the recôncavo city of Cachoeira, penned his most famous poem, Navio negreiro, about slavery ; the poem is considered a masterpiece of Brazilian Romanticism and a central anti-slavery text.

In addition to these topics of special interest to cigar smokers, the interview touched upon bilateral relations between the United States and Cuba, during the course of which Castro accused the United States of repeatedly " moving the goalposts back " for ending the Cuban economic embargo and claimed that " no other country has as unblemished behavior about human rights " as Cuba.

Demonstrating early on a creative and quirky bent, in his junior year at Princeton, Kelley submitted a paper for a political science class about John F Kennedy's plot to kill Fidel Castro, written as a poem.

At a fiesta he sang to President Fidel Castro, who took his pulse and joked about his vitality despite his 90-plus years.

Sturgis said " that the Castro government suspected the CIA did not tell the whole truth about this operations even to American political leaders ".

Hunt was undeniably bitter about what he perceived as President John F. Kennedy's lack of commitment in overturning the Fidel Castro regime.

* Y Dios entró en La Habana ( And God entered La Habana ), 1998, about Cuba, Fidel Castro and the visit of the Pope John Paul II.

The Castro of Avelãs ( about three kilometres from Bragança ) was an important centre on the military road to Astorga, although there are many examples ( in Alfaião, Aveleda, Carrazedo, Castro de Avelãs, Donai, França, Gostei, Meixedo, Pinela, Quintela Lampaças, etc.

He has written extensively in defence of Cuba and about his meetings with Fidel Castro.

He has worked with very renowned directors like Spike Lee ( 25th Hour ), Oliver Stone ( the documentaries Comandante about Fidel Castro, and Persona Non Grata, about Yassir Arafat, and Alexander starring Colin Farrell ) and Ang Lee ( Brokeback Mountain, one of his most recognized works, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, and Lust, Caution ).

On April 10, 2012, Guillén was suspended for five games by the Marlins due to comments made about former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

Another relevant playwright of the 16th century is António Ferreira ( 1528 – 1569 ), who wrote " A Castro " ( 1587 ), a well-known tragedy about the forbidden love between D. Pedro I and D. Inês de Castro.

Opponents of the Castro government outside of Cuba expressed skepticism about the legitimacy of Ochoa's arrest and execution.

The arrival of Soviet missiles in Cuba was conducted by the Soviets on the rationale that the US already had nuclear missiles stationed in Turkey, as well as the desire by Fidel Castro to increase his power, his freedom of action, and to protect his government from US-initiated prejudicial resolution of ideological disputes through the use of military force, such as had been attempted during the Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961.

The extraordinary Portuguese discoveries and the " new kingdom that they exalted so much " (" novo reino que tanto sublimaram ") in the East, and certainly the recent and extraordinary deeds of " strong Castro " (" Castro forte ", the viceroy D. João de Castro ), who had died some years before the poet's arrival to Indian lands, were the decisive factors for Camões completing the Portuguese epic.

In November 1841, Vallejo was meeting with José Castro at Mission San José when he was informed of the arrival in California of an immigrant party led by John Bidwell and John Bartleson.

Upon learning of the imminent arrival of Commodore Stockton, Castro retired, leaving behind all his artillery and made off in the direction of Sonora.

The first half of the decade was marked by the arrival of three of the most important foreign players in the history of the club ; the Peruvian Juan José Muñante, the Serbian Velibor " Bora " Milutinović, and Evanivaldo Castro " Cabinho ".