Bridges of Reform Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles

Name: Bridges of Reform Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
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ISBN: 9780195331677

ISBN-10: 0195331672

ISBN-13: 9780195331677

Edition: 2010

Authors: Shana Bernstein

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Bridges of Reform uncovers the early years of civil rights and the sophisticated ways it played out on the West Coast, a situation that radically differed from civil rights in the South and North. In this book, Shana Bernstein uses World War II and Cold War Los Angeles as a locus of civil rights activity and explores its roots in multiracial organizing. There, activists built multiracial collaborations, bringing together the Mexican-, Jewish-, African-, and Japanese-American populations. Later national civil rights legislation and Supreme Court rulings, as well as ethnic-specific community movements, emerged in part from these interracial efforts in Los Angeles. Detailed archival research…

Book details

List price: $30.49
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/3/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Abbreviations


Acknowledgments


Illustrations and Maps


Introduction



Los Angeles, the Early Years



Shadows of War, Forces for Change



The War Comes Home



Cold Warriors of a Different Stripe



The Community Service Organization and Interracial Civil Rights Activism in the Cold War Era



Los Angeles to the Nation


Conclusion: A Lasting Legacy


Notes


Bibliography


Index