Bound for Freedom : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America /

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Paul 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flamming, Douglas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Schwarze, ...
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Ethnische Beziehungen
Race relations.
Community life.
Civil rights movements.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans.
HISTORY > United States > General.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
Communaute > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Communaute > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Communaute.
Noirs americains > Droits > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire.
Noirs americains > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Civil rights movements > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > California > Los Angeles > History > 19th century.
Community life > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Community life > California > Los Angeles > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > California > Los Angeles > History.
African Americans > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
African Americans > California > Los Angeles > History > 19th century.
Schwärze
Los Angeles, Calif.
California > Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Relations raciales.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Race relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Staking a claim in the west
  • Southern roots, Western dreams
  • The conditions of heaven
  • Claiming Central Avenue
  • A civic engagement
  • Politics and patriotism
  • pt. II. Civil rights as a way of life
  • Fighting spirit in the 1920s
  • The business of race
  • Surging down Central Avenue
  • Responding to the depression
  • Race and New Deal liberalism.

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