The Resource Bound for freedom : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America, Douglas Flamming
Bound for freedom : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America, Douglas Flamming
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The item Bound for freedom : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America, Douglas Flamming represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item Bound for freedom : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America, Douglas Flamming represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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 this day
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xviii, 467 pages)
- Note
- Title from PDF file title page (viewed November 17, 2016)
- Contents
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- 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
- pt. 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
- Isbn
- 9781417584963
- Label
- Bound for freedom : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America
- Title
- Bound for freedom
- Title remainder
- Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America
- Statement of responsibility
- Douglas Flamming
- Subject
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- African Americans
- African Americans -- California | Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans -- California | Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- California | Los Angeles -- History
- California -- Los Angeles
- Civil rights movements
- Civil rights movements -- California | Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century
- Civil rights movements -- California | Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
- Community life
- Community life -- California | Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century
- Community life -- California | Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- State & Local | General
- HISTORY -- United States -- General
- History
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations
- Race relations
- 1800-1999
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 this day
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Flamming, Douglas
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- A George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African Americans
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Community life
- Community life
- Civil rights movements
- Civil rights movements
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- HISTORY
- HISTORY
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Civil rights movements
- Community life
- Race relations
- California
- Label
- Bound for freedom : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America, Douglas Flamming
- Note
- Title from PDF file title page (viewed November 17, 2016)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-438) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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 -- pt. 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
- Control code
- ocm58728514
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xviii, 467 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781417584963
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttt090x
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)58728514
- Label
- Bound for freedom : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America, Douglas Flamming
- Note
- Title from PDF file title page (viewed November 17, 2016)
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-438) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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 -- pt. 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
- Control code
- ocm58728514
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xviii, 467 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781417584963
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttt090x
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)58728514
Subject
- African Americans
- African Americans -- California | Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans -- California | Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- California | Los Angeles -- History
- California -- Los Angeles
- Civil rights movements
- Civil rights movements -- California | Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century
- Civil rights movements -- California | Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
- Community life
- Community life -- California | Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century
- Community life -- California | Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- State & Local | General
- HISTORY -- United States -- General
- History
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations
- Race relations
- 1800-1999
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