03936nam 2200733Ia 450 991110691160332120251117120104.0978052093986805209398679781597346962159734696910.1525/9780520939868(CKB)1000000000004466(EBL)223639(OCoLC)437143971(SSID)ssj0000188231(PQKBManifestationID)11201569(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000188231(PQKBWorkID)10143371(PQKB)11025814(DE-B1597)520241(OCoLC)1114851292(DE-B1597)9780520939868(Au-PeEL)EBL223639(CaPaEBR)ebr10062271(MiAaPQ)EBC223639(Perlego)552067(EXLCZ)99100000000000446620030219d2003 mb 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrL.A. city limits African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the present /Josh Sides1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20031 online resource (304 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780520248304 0520248309 9780520238411 0520238419 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.LA city limitsLos Angeles city limitsAfrican AmericansCaliforniaLos AngelesSocial conditions20th centuryAfrican AmericansCaliforniaLos AngelesEconomic conditions20th centuryLos Angeles (Calif.)Race relationsLos Angeles (Calif.)Social conditions20th centuryLos Angeles (Calif.)Economic conditions20th centuryAfrican AmericansSocial conditionsAfrican AmericansEconomic conditions979.4/9400496073Sides Josh1972-1858952MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911106911603321L.A. city limits4769698UNINA