LEADER 03759nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910450184803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-520-93986-7 010 $a1-59734-696-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520939868 035 $a(CKB)1000000000004466 035 $a(EBL)223639 035 $a(OCoLC)437143971 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000188231 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11201569 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000188231 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10143371 035 $a(PQKB)11025814 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223639 035 $a(DE-B1597)520241 035 $a(OCoLC)1114851292 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520939868 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223639 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10062271 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000004466 100 $a20030219d2003 mb 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aL.A. city limits$b[electronic resource] $eAfrican American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the present /$fJosh Sides 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (304 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-24830-9 311 $a0-520-23841-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. African Americans in Prewar Los Angeles --$t2. The Great Migration and the Changing Face of Los Angeles --$t3. The Window of Opportunity: Black Work in Industrial Los Angeles, 1941-1964 --$t4. Race and Housing in Postwar Los Angeles --$t5. Building the Civil Rights Movement in Los Angeles --$t6. Black Community Transformation in the 1960's and 1970's --$tEpilogue --$tMaps --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aAfrican Americans$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xSocial conditions$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xEconomic conditions$y20th century 607 $aLos Angeles (Calif.)$xRace relations 607 $aLos Angeles (Calif.)$xSocial conditions$y20th century 607 $aLos Angeles (Calif.)$xEconomic conditions$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xEconomic conditions 676 $a979.4/9400496073 700 $aSides$b Josh$f1972-$0958770 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450184803321 996 $aL.A. city limits$92475507 997 $aUNINA