L. A. City Limits African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present

Name: L. A. City Limits African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present
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ISBN: 9780520248304

ISBN-10: 0520248309

ISBN-13: 9780520248304

Edition: 2010

Authors: Josh Sides

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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. A clear-eyed and compelling look at black struggles for equality in L.A.'s neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces from the Great Depression to our day,L.A. City Limitscritically refocuses the ongoing debate about the origins of America's racial and urban crisis. Challenging…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/12/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



African American Los Angeles Before World War II



The Great Migration and the Changing Face of Los Angeles



The Window of Opportunity: Black Work in Industrial Los Angeles, 1941-1964



Race and Housing in Postwar Los Angeles



Making the Modern Civil Rights Movement in Los Angeles



Black Community Transformation in the 1960s and 1970s


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


List of Captions


Index