Title Bound for Freedom : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (519 pages) Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Southern Roots Western Dreams; 2 The Conditions of Heaven; 3 Claiming Central Avenue; 4 A Civic Engagement; 5 Politics and Patriotism; 6 Fighting Spirit in the 1920s; 7 The Business of Race; 8 Surging Down Central Avenue; 9 Responding to the Depression; 10 Race and New Deal Liberalism; Departure; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary A definitive, illustrated account of Los Angeles's black community in the half century before World War I details African-American community life and political activism during the city's transformation from a small town to a sprawling metropolis Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-438) and index Notes English Print version record Subject 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 African Americans African Americans -- Civil rights Civil rights movements Community life Race relations SUBJECT Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations Subject California -- Los Angeles Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book LC no. 2004018017 ISBN 9780520940284 0520940288 9780520239197 0520239199 1282358731 9781282358737 9786612358739 6612358734 1597345083 9781597345088

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