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Bound for Freedom - Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America (Paperback, New Ed)
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Bound for Freedom - Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America (Paperback, New Ed)
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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's 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
thisday.
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