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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Author / Creator: Campbell, Marne L. (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
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