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(Number (ISBN

0520940288

(Number (ISBN

1417584963

(Number (ISBN

9780520940284

(Number (ISBN

9781417584963

Erroneous ISBN

0520239199

Erroneous ISBN

0520249909

Erroneous ISBN

1282358731

Erroneous ISBN

9780520239197

Erroneous ISBN

9780520249905

Erroneous ISBN

9781282358737

Number

b795938

Title Proper

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General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America /

First Statement of Responsibility

Douglas Flamming.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berkeley :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2005.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xviii, 467 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps.

Series Title

A George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies

Text of Note

Title from PDF file title page (viewed November 17, 2016).

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-438) and index.

Text of Note

Part I. Staking a claim in the west -- Southern roots, Western dreams -- The conditions of heaven -- Claiming Central Avenue -- A civic engagement -- Politics and patriotism -- pt. II. Civil rights as a way of life -- Fighting spirit in the 1920s --The business of race -- Surging down Central Avenue -- Responding to the depression -- Race and New Deal liberalism.

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Paul Bontemps decided to move his family to Los Angeles from Louisiana in 1906 on the day he finally submitted to a strictly enforced Southern custom-he stepped off the sidewalk to allow white men who had just insulted him to pass by. Friends of the Bontemps family, like many others beckoning their loved ones West, had written that Los Angeles was "a city called heaven" for people of color. But just how free was Southern California for African Americans? This splendid history, at once sweeping in its historical reach and intimate in its evocation of everyday life, is the first full account of Los Angeles's black community in the half century before World War II. Filled with moving human drama, it brings alive a time and place largely ignored by historians until now, detailing African American community life and political activism during the city's transformation from small town to sprawling metropolis. Writing with a novelist's sensitivity to language and drawing from fresh historical research, Douglas Flamming takes us from Reconstruction to the Jim Crow era, through the Great Migration, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the build-up to World War II. Along the way, he offers rich descriptions of the community and its middle-class leadership, the women who were front and center with men in the battle against racism in the American West. In addition to drawing a vivid portrait of a little-known era, Flamming shows that the history of race in Los Angeles is crucial for our understanding of race in America. The civil rights activism in Los Angeles laid the foundation for critical developments in the second half of the century that continue to influence us to this day.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Stock Number

22573/cttt090x

Title

Bound for freedom.

International Standard Book Number

0520239199

Schwarze, ...

African Americans-- California-- Los Angeles-- History-- 19th century.

African Americans-- California-- Los Angeles-- History-- 20th century.

African Americans-- Civil rights-- California-- Los Angeles-- History.

Civil rights movements-- California-- Los Angeles-- History-- 19th century.

Civil rights movements-- California-- Los Angeles-- History-- 20th century.

Community life-- California-- Los Angeles-- History-- 19th century.

Community life-- California-- Los Angeles-- History-- 20th century.

Communauté

Communauté-- Californie-- Los Angeles-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.

Mouvements des droits de l'homme-- Californie-- Los Angeles-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.

Mouvements des droits de l'homme-- Californie-- Los Angeles-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.

Noirs américains-- Californie-- Los Angeles-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.

Noirs américains-- Californie-- Los Angeles-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.

Noirs américains-- Droits-- Californie-- Los Angeles-- Histoire.

African Americans-- Civil rights.

African Americans.

Bürgerrechtsbewegung

Civil rights movements.

Community life.

Ethnische Beziehungen

HISTORY-- State & Local-- General.

HISTORY-- United States-- General.

Race relations.

Los Angeles (Calif.), Race relations.

Los Angeles (Calif.), Relations raciales.

California, Los Angeles.

Los Angeles, Calif.

Schwarze.

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HBKW, JBHC

HIS-- 036010

HIS036000

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Edition

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Book number

Class number

System Code

Flamming, Douglas.

Date of Transaction

20201207085344.0

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[Book]

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