The Coveted Westside : How the Black Homeowners' Rights Movement Shaped Modern Los Angeles /

"The Coveted Westside explores the middle-class African American-led movement to challenge housing discrimination, gain equal access to twentieth-century Los Angeles, and ward off resegregation. Black professionals, from actors to entrepreneurs to doctors, made the city's distinguished nei...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Mandel, Jennifer, 1975- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Las Vegas : University of Nevada Press, [2022]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Housing policy.
Discrimination in housing.
African Americans > Housing.
Housing policy > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Discrimination in housing > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Housing > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
California > Los Angeles.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"The Coveted Westside explores the middle-class African American-led movement to challenge housing discrimination, gain equal access to twentieth-century Los Angeles, and ward off resegregation. Black professionals, from actors to entrepreneurs to doctors, made the city's distinguished neighborhoods of West Adams Heights in the 1940s and the Crenshaw area, View Park, View Heights, and Windsor Hillsin the postwar era hubs in the fight for fair housing"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781647790356

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