Bound for Freedom : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America.
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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| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations follow pages 158 and 342
- List of Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I: Staking a Claim in the West
- Arrival
- 1. Southern Roots, Western Dreams
- 2. The Conditions of Heaven
- 3. Claiming Central Avenue
- 4. A Civic Engagement
- 5. Politics and Patriotism
- PART II: Civil Rights as a Way of Life
- 6. Fighting Spirit in the 1920s
- 7. The Business of Race
- 8. Surging Down Central Avenue
- 9. Responding to the Depression
- 10. Race and New Deal Liberalism
- Departure
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y.