Bound for freedom : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America
Annotation A breakthough history of Los Angeles' black community in the half century before World War II
Print Book, English, ©2005
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2005
History
xviii, 467 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
9780520239197, 9780520249905, 0520239199, 0520249909
56192160
Acknowledgments List of Maps Where We Begin Part One. Staking a Claim in the West Arrival 1. Southern Roots, Western Dreams 2. The Conditions of Heaven 3. Claiming Central Avenue 4. Civic Engagement 5. Politics and Patriotism Part Two. Civil Rights as a Way of Life 6. Fighting Spirit in the Twenties 7. The Business of Race 8. Surging Down Central 9. Responding to the Depression 10. Race and the New Deal Liberalism Departure Appendixes and Tables Notes Bibliography Index
"George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies"--Preliminary page