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...
Основен автор: | Flamming, Douglas. |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
℗♭2005.
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Серия: |
A George Gund Foundation book in African American studies.
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Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=129003 |
Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Bound for freedom. |
Съдържание:
- 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
- PART 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.