Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow AmericaUniversity of California Press, 24 Jan 2005 - 485 halaman 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. |
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... organization that is unusually sane , slightly loopy , and in- variably redeeming . Western history circles allowed me to meet Virginia Swift , singer - author and trail traveler ; David Igler , the very embodiment of decency ; and ...
... organization that is unusually sane , slightly loopy , and in- variably redeeming . Western history circles allowed me to meet Virginia Swift , singer - author and trail traveler ; David Igler , the very embodiment of decency ; and ...
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... organized the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Biddy Mason's home . Almost simultane- ously , the city's black Baptists organized the Second Baptist Church . These two congregations remained very small until the late 188os ...
... organized the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Biddy Mason's home . Almost simultane- ously , the city's black Baptists organized the Second Baptist Church . These two congregations remained very small until the late 188os ...
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... organized in 1903 by the First African Methodist Episcopal Church . Despite its church ties , meetings were held outside the church , and the Forum was explicitly open to everyone in the community regardless of religion , income ...
... organized in 1903 by the First African Methodist Episcopal Church . Despite its church ties , meetings were held outside the church , and the Forum was explicitly open to everyone in the community regardless of religion , income ...
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... organization and an important venue for black activism.14 In addition to the Forum , Charlotta discovered that the black commu- nity had a substantial number of churches ( she would join Second Baptist ) , a growing number of Colored ...
... organization and an important venue for black activism.14 In addition to the Forum , Charlotta discovered that the black commu- nity had a substantial number of churches ( she would join Second Baptist ) , a growing number of Colored ...
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... organization of the twentieth century , the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) ... organized a local branch of the National Negro Business League and promoted the Afro - American Building Association ...
... organization of the twentieth century , the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) ... organized a local branch of the National Negro Business League and promoted the Afro - American Building Association ...
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The Conditions of Heaven | 58 |
Claiming Central Avenue | 90 |
A Civic Engagement | 124 |
Politics and Patriotism | 158 |
Fighting Spirit in the 1920s | 189 |
The Business of Race | 224 |
Surging Down Central Avenue | 257 |
Responding to the Depression | 294 |
Race and New Deal Liberalism | 329 |
Departure | 363 |
Notes | 381 |
Bibliography | 425 |
Index | 437 |
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