LEADER 05870nam 22011294a 450 001 9910819771603321 005 20240410070937.0 010 $a1-282-35873-1 010 $a9786612358739 010 $a0-520-94028-8 010 $a1-59734-508-3 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520940284 035 $a(CKB)1000000000030725 035 $a(EBL)227284 035 $a(OCoLC)475933450 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000114094 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11117237 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000114094 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10101439 035 $a(PQKB)11519913 035 $a(OCoLC)58728514 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30796 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC227284 035 $a(DE-B1597)519003 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520940284 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL227284 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10075633 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235873 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000030725 100 $a20040730d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBound for freedom$b[electronic resource] $eBlack Los Angeles in Jim Crow America /$fDouglas Flamming 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (518 p.) 300 $a"George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies". 311 $a0-520-24990-9 311 $a0-520-23919-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 427-438) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tMaps --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tArrival --$t1. Southern Roots, Western Dreams --$t2. The Conditions of Heaven --$t3. Claiming Central Avenue --$t4. A Civic Engagement --$t5. Politics and Patriotism --$t6. Fighting Spirit in the 1920's --$t7. The Business of Race --$t8. Surging Down Central Avenue --$t9. Responding to the Depression --$t10. Race and New Deal Liberalism --$tDeparture --$tNotes --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aPaul Bontemps decided to move his family to Los Angeles from Louisiana in 1906 on the day he finally submitted to a strictly enforced Southern custom-he stepped off the sidewalk to allow white men who had just insulted him to pass by. Friends of the Bontemps family, like many others beckoning their loved ones West, had written that Los Angeles was "a city called heaven" for people of color. But just how free was Southern California for African Americans? This splendid history, at once sweeping in its historical reach and intimate in its evocation of everyday life, is the first full account of Los Angeles's black community in the half century before World War II. Filled with moving human drama, it brings alive a time and place largely ignored by historians until now, detailing African American community life and political activism during the city's transformation from small town to sprawling metropolis. Writing with a novelist's sensitivity to language and drawing from fresh historical research, Douglas Flamming takes us from Reconstruction to the Jim Crow era, through the Great Migration, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the build-up to World War II. Along the way, he offers rich descriptions of the community and its middle-class leadership, the women who were front and center with men in the battle against racism in the American West. In addition to drawing a vivid portrait of a little-known era, Flamming shows that the history of race in Los Angeles is crucial for our understanding of race in America. The civil rights activism in Los Angeles laid the foundation for critical developments in the second half of the century that continue to influence us to this day. 606 $aAfrican Americans$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xHistory 606 $aCommunity life$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aCommunity life$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCivil rights movements$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aCivil rights movements$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aLos Angeles (Calif.)$xRace relations 610 $a20th century african american history. 610 $a20th century american history. 610 $aafrican americans. 610 $aamerican west. 610 $abiographical. 610 $ablack americans. 610 $ablack community. 610 $acivil rights activism. 610 $acritical development. 610 $agreat depression. 610 $agreat migration. 610 $ajim crow america. 610 $ajim crow laws. 610 $ajim crow. 610 $ala. 610 $aleadership. 610 $alos angeles. 610 $alouisiana. 610 $apolitical activism. 610 $arace in america. 610 $aracial segregation. 610 $aracism in america. 610 $aroaring twenties. 610 $asecond world war. 610 $aseparate but equal. 610 $asouthern california. 610 $asouthern customs. 610 $aunited states of america. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory. 615 0$aCommunity life$xHistory 615 0$aCommunity life$xHistory 615 0$aCivil rights movements$xHistory 615 0$aCivil rights movements$xHistory 676 $a979.4/9400496073 700 $aFlamming$b Douglas$01666752 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819771603321 996 $aBound for freedom$94026177 997 $aUNINA