LEADER 04012nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910785458403321 005 20230120085227.0 010 $a0-19-977972-4 010 $a1-282-94499-1 010 $a9786612944994 010 $a0-19-971589-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000061042 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24086991 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3053964 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10436211 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL294499 035 $a(OCoLC)694088748 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7036096 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3053964 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7036096 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000061042 100 $a20100111d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBridges of reform$b[electronic resource] $einterracial civil rights activism in twentieth-century Los Angeles /$fShana Bernstein 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 339 p. ) $cill., map 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 $a0-19-533166-4 311 $a0-19-533167-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aINTRODUCTION; 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; CONCLUSION 330 $aThis 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. 330 $bBridges 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. 606 $aCivil rights movements$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCommunity life$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCultural pluralism$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aLos Angeles (Calif.)$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aLos Angeles (Calif.)$xSocial conditions$y20th century 615 0$aCivil rights movements$xHistory 615 0$aCommunity life$xHistory 615 0$aCultural pluralism$xHistory 676 $a979.4/94053 700 $aBernstein$b Shana$01499390 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785458403321 996 $aBridges of reform$93725386 997 $aUNINA