The pioneers of housing integration in Los Angeles -- Demarcating the Westside from the Eastside -- Black settlement in West Jefferson and West Adams Heights -- The legal demise of racial restrictive covenants -- Post-Shelley westward migration and the case for Crenshaw -- The affluent Black Westside takes shape -- A campaign to build "a balanced community" -- Brockman Gallery and the art of social change -- Black Beverly Hills redux.
Summary:
"The Coveted Westside explores the middle-class African American-led movement to challenge housing discrimination, gain equal access to twentieth-century Los Angeles, and ward off resegregation. Black professionals, from actors to entrepreneurs to doctors, made the city's distinguished neighborhoods of West Adams Heights in the 1940s and the Crenshaw area, View Park, View Heights, and Windsor Hills in the postwar era hubs in the fight for fair housing"-- Provided by publisher.
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