"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-277) and index.
Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 African Americans in Prewar Los Angeles; 2 The Great Migration and the Changing Face of Los Angeles; 3 The Window of Opportunity: Black Work in Industrial Los Angeles, 1941- 1964; 4 Race and Housing in Postwar Los Angeles; 5 Building the Civil Rights Movement in Los Angeles; 6 Black Community Transformation in the 1960s and 1970s; Epilogue; Maps: The Historical Geography of African American Los Angeles; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass--embodying both the best and worst of what urban America offered black migrants from the South--is the story told for the first time in this history of modern black Los Angeles.
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African Americans-- California-- Los Angeles-- Economic conditions-- 20th century.
African Americans-- California-- Los Angeles-- Social conditions-- 20th century.
African Americans-- Economic conditions.
African Americans-- Social conditions.
Economic history.
HISTORY-- State & Local-- General.
HISTORY-- United States-- State & Local-- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Race relations.
Rassenverhoudingen.
Sociaal-economische situatie.
Social conditions
Los Angeles (Calif.), Economic conditions, 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.), Race relations.
Los Angeles (Calif.), Social conditions, 20th century.