04012nam 2200613Ia 450 991078545840332120230120085227.00-19-977972-41-282-94499-197866129449940-19-971589-0(CKB)2670000000061042(StDuBDS)AH24086991(Au-PeEL)EBL3053964(CaPaEBR)ebr10436211(CaONFJC)MIL294499(OCoLC)694088748(Au-PeEL)EBL7036096(MiAaPQ)EBC3053964(MiAaPQ)EBC7036096(EXLCZ)99267000000006104220100111d2010 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBridges of reform[electronic resource] interracial civil rights activism in twentieth-century Los Angeles /Shana BernsteinOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20101 online resource (xi, 339 p. ) ill., mapFormerly CIP.Uk0-19-533166-4 0-19-533167-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.INTRODUCTION; 1. Chapter 1: Los Angeles, the Early Days; 2. Chapter 2: Shadows of War, Forces for Change; 3. Chapter 3: The War Comes Home; 4. Chapter 4, Cold Warriors of a Different Stripe; 5. Chapter 5: The Community Service Organization and Interracial Civil Rights Activism in the Cold War Era; 6. Chapter 6: Los Angeles to the Nation; CONCLUSIONThis title 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.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 reveals that significant domestic activism for racial equality persisted during the Cold War in the form of multiracial, anti-communist civil rights collaboration. The United States' global interests during World War II encouraged activists of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds to join forces. The Cold War facilitated further coalition-building and the pursuit of ongoing racial equality goals as activists sought protection and legitimacy from each other in this conservative era. From a city that incubated civil rights activism, Bernstein broadly connects West Coast activism with the domestic home front, the wars in Europe and Asia, and the onset of the Cold War, creating a unique study of comparative race, ethnicity, and civil rights.Civil rights movementsCaliforniaLos AngelesHistory20th centuryCommunity lifeCaliforniaLos AngelesHistory20th centuryCultural pluralismCaliforniaLos AngelesHistory20th centuryLos Angeles (Calif.)Race relationsHistory20th centuryLos Angeles (Calif.)Social conditions20th centuryCivil rights movementsHistoryCommunity lifeHistoryCultural pluralismHistory979.4/94053Bernstein Shana1499390MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785458403321Bridges of reform3725386UNINA