03759nam 2200649Ia 450 991045018480332120200520144314.00-520-93986-71-59734-696-910.1525/9780520939868(CKB)1000000000004466(EBL)223639(OCoLC)437143971(SSID)ssj0000188231(PQKBManifestationID)11201569(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000188231(PQKBWorkID)10143371(PQKB)11025814(MiAaPQ)EBC223639(DE-B1597)520241(OCoLC)1114851292(DE-B1597)9780520939868(Au-PeEL)EBL223639(CaPaEBR)ebr10062271(EXLCZ)99100000000000446620030219d2003 mb 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrL.A. city limits[electronic resource] African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the present /Josh SidesBerkeley University of California Pressc20031 online resource (304 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-24830-9 0-520-23841-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. African Americans in Prewar Los Angeles --2. The Great Migration and the Changing Face of Los Angeles --3. The Window of Opportunity: Black Work in Industrial Los Angeles, 1941-1964 --4. Race and Housing in Postwar Los Angeles --5. Building the Civil Rights Movement in Los Angeles --6. Black Community Transformation in the 1960's and 1970's --Epilogue --Maps --Notes --Bibliography --IndexIn 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 Limits critically refocuses the ongoing debate about the origins of America's racial and urban crisis. Challenging previous analysts' near-exclusive focus on northern "rust-belt" cities devastated by de-industrialization, Josh Sides asserts that the cities to which black southerners migrated profoundly affected how they fared. He shows how L.A.'s diverse racial composition, dispersive geography, and dynamic postwar economy often created opportunities-and limits-quite different from those encountered by blacks in the urban North.African AmericansCaliforniaLos AngelesSocial conditions20th centuryAfrican AmericansCaliforniaLos AngelesEconomic conditions20th centuryLos Angeles (Calif.)Race relationsLos Angeles (Calif.)Social conditions20th centuryLos Angeles (Calif.)Economic conditions20th centuryElectronic books.African AmericansSocial conditionsAfrican AmericansEconomic conditions979.4/9400496073Sides Josh1972-958770MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450184803321L.A. city limits2475507UNINA