Making Black Los Angeles : Class, Gender, and Community, 1850-1917.

Making Black Los Angeles : Class, Gender, and Community, 1850-1917.

Black Los Angeles started small. The first census of the newly formed Los Angeles County in 1850 recorded only 12 Americans of African descent alongside a population of more than 3,500 Anglo Americans. Over the following 70 years, however, the African American founding families of Los Angeles forged...

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator: Campbell, Marne L. (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
Subjects:
1800-1999
African Americans > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions > 19th century.
African Americans > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions > 20th century.
Community life > California > Los Angeles > History > 19th century.
Community life > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Social conditions
Community life
Race relations
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
California > Los Angeles
History
Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
Table of Contents:
  • Myths & origins : racial formation in Los Angeles
  • Heaven ain't hard to find : the formation of the African American community
  • Establishing and maintaining institutions
  • The development of the underclass
  • They were all filled with the Holy Ghost! : the early years of the Azusa Street revival
  • Booker T. Washington goes west.

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