L.a. City Limits

African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present

By: Josh Sides

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Paperback | 12 June 2006 | Edition Number 1

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In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass-embodying both the best and worst of what urban America offered black migrants from the South-is the story told for the first time in this history of modern black Los Angeles. A clear-eyed and compelling look at black struggles for equality in L.A.'s neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces from the Great Depression to our day, L.A. City Limits critically refocuses the ongoing debate about the origins of America's racial and urban crisis.

Challenging previous analysts' near-exclusive focus on northern "rust-belt" cities devastated by de-industrialization, Josh Sides asserts that the cities to which black southerners migrated profoundly affected how they fared. He shows how L.A.'s diverse racial composition, dispersive geography, and dynamic postwar economy often created opportunities-and limits-quite different from those encountered by blacks in the urban North.

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"An exceptional book....[Sides] mixes pioneering research with good writing, sharp analysis and the moving stories of everyday people. His work deserves a place on the bookshelves of all serious students of Los Angeles and the rest of urban California." - Bill Boyarsky, Los Angeles Times Book Review "source material for for planners of tomorrow's multiracial cities." "[A] counter-narrative to the historic narrative of crime, violence and poverty." - Michael T. Jarvis, La Times Magazine"

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20th Century History from 1900 to 2000

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
African American Los Angeles Before World War II
The Great Migration and the Changing Face of Los Angeles
The Window of Opportunity: Black Work in Industrial Los Angeles, 1941-1964
Race and Housing in Postwar Los Angeles
Making the Modern Civil Rights Movement in Los Angeles
Black Community Transformation in the 1960s and 1970s
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
List of Captions
Index
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L.a. City Limits

African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present

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