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Douglas Flamming Bound for Freedom (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Bound for FreedomCondition: NewSubtitle: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow AmericaISBN-10: 0520249909EAN: 9780520249905ISBN: 9780520249905Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/01/2006Description: 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 loved ones West, had written that Los Angeles was 'a city called heaven' for people of color. But just how free was Southern California for African Americans? This splendid history, at once sweeping in its historical reach and intimate in its evocation of everyday life, is the first full account of Los Angeles' black community in the half century before World War II. Filled with moving human drama, it brings alive a time and place largely ignored by historians until now, detailing African American community life and political activism during the city's transformation from small town to sprawling metropolis. Writing with a novelist's sensitivity to language and drawing from fresh historical research, Douglas Flamming takes us from Reconstruction to the Jim Crow era, through the Great Migration, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the build-up to World War II.Along the way, he offers rich descriptions of the community and its middle-class leadership, the women who were front and center with men in the battle against racism in the American West. In addition to drawing a vivid portrait of a little-known era, Flamming shows that the history of race in Los Angeles is crucial for our understanding of race in America. The civil rights activism in Los Angeles laid the foundation for critical developments in the second half of the century that continue to influence us to this day.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 30mmItem Weight: 771gAuthor: Douglas FlammingGenre: HistoryTopic: Home Garden & PetsRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Publication Name: Bound for Freedom

Title: Bound for Freedom

Subtitle: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America

ISBN-10: 0520249909

EAN: 9780520249905

ISBN: 9780520249905

Release Date: 08/01/2006

Release Year: 2006

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Book Title: Bound for Freedom : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America

Number of Pages: 485 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: University of California Press

Topic: United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Sociology / General, Civil Rights, United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

Publication Year: 2006

Item Height: 1.2 in

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Political Science, Social Science, History

Item Weight: 27.3 Oz

Author: Douglas Flamming

Item Length: 9 in

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Perfect

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