Bound for Freedom : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America by Douglas Flamming (2006, Perfect)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520249909
ISBN-139780520249905
eBay Product ID (ePID)53814341
Product Key Features
Book TitleBound for Freedom : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America
Number of Pages485 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Sociology / General, Civil Rights, United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year2006
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, History
AuthorDouglas Flamming
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight27.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-018017
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal979.4/9400496073
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 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
SynopsisPaul 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 thisday., 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.
LC Classification Number2004018017
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