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West of Jim Crow - The Fight against California's Color Line (Hardcover)
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West of Jim Crow - The Fight against California's Color Line (Hardcover)
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African Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding
freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial
segregation. As one transplant put it, "The only difference between
Pasadena and Mississippi is the way they are spelled." From the
beaches to streetcars to schools, the Golden State-in contrast to
its reputation for tolerance-perfected many methods of controlling
people of color.Lynn M. Hudson deepens our understanding of the
practices that African Americans in the West deployed to dismantle
Jim Crow in the quest for civil rights prior to the 1960s. Faced
with institutionalized racism, black Californians used both
established and improvised tactics to resist and survive the
state's color line. Hudson rediscovers forgotten stories like the
experimental all-black community of Allensworth, the California Ku
Klux Klan's campaign of terror against African Americans, the
bitter struggle to integrate public swimming pools in Pasadena and
elsewhere, and segregationists' preoccupation with gender and
sexuality.
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