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L.A. city limits : African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the present

Author: Josh Sides
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In 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  Read more...

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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Josh Sides
ISBN: 9780520238411 0520238419 0520248309 9780520248304
OCLC Number: 51726604
Notes: "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
Description: xiv, 288 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: African Americans in Prewar Los Angeles --
The great migration and the changing face of Los Angeles --
The window of opportunity: black work in industrial Los Angeles, 1941-1964 --
Race and housing in postwar Los Angeles --
Building the civil rights movement in Los Angeles --
Black community transformation in the 1960s and 1970s.
Other Titles: LA city limits
Los Angeles city limits
Responsibility: Josh Sides.
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"An exceptional book....[Sides] mixes pioneering research with good writing, sharp analysis and the moving stories of everyday people. His work deserves a place on the bookshelves of all serious Read more...

 
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