The Bill Pickett Rodeo has been around for 38 years, celebrating the contributions Black cowboys and cowgirls have made building the West.
Rodeo president and owner Valeria Howard-Cunningham says her late husband, Lu Vason, started it in 1984. She said Vason went to a rodeo show in Wyoming and noticed something. So Vason wanted to showcase the undeniable national appeal of black cowboys and cowgirls and that's what birthed this rodeo. She says Vason lived in Oakland decades and wanted his Bay Area community to have this rodeo experience.
Vason passed away in 2015, now Valeria is leading it. She says there are many horse people in Oakland, so this weekend's show is big in the East Bay. The cultural application in the community is what draws people to Bill Pickett year after year. "You don't get to see that! You don't see it in the movies, you don't see it on tv, you don't see it in the history books," said Howard-Cunningham."So it is important to us to tell our own story and tell it correctly."
"There is more to us than just overcoming slavery," said Howard-Cunningham."We developed the West. We developed this country. We have skills as cowboys and cowgirls and we can do anything that we want to do. that's why it's important."
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