Bound for freedom : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America / Douglas Flamming.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flamming, Douglas
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005], ©2005.
Subjects:
African Americans > California > Los Angeles > History > 19th century.
African Americans > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > California > Los Angeles > History.
Community life > California > Los Angeles > History > 19th century.
Community life > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > California > Los Angeles > History > 19th century.
Civil rights movements > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Race relations.
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Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:xviii, 467 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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
  • PART 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.