“Respect the patch”: How Oakland’s oldest Black motorcycle club survived more than 60 years

“Respect the patch”: How Oakland’s oldest Black motorcycle club survived more than 60 years

East Bay Yesterday

Tobie Gene Levingston left behind his life as a Louisiana sharecropper in the mid-1950s to work at an Oakland metal foundry. Within a few years, he started the East Bay Dragons, which grew to be one of the most legendary…

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