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Author:

Sides, Josh, 1972-

Title:

L.A. city limits : African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the present / Josh Sides.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xiv, 288 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Social conditions--20th century.
African Americans--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Economic conditions--20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Race relations.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions--20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Economic conditions--20th century.

Notes:

"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies." Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-277) and index.

Contents:

African Americans in Prewar Los Angeles -- 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 -- Building the civil rights movement in Los Angeles -- Black community transformation in the 1960s and 1970s.

ISBN:

9780520238411 (alk. paper)
0520238419 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51726604

LCCN:

2003003888

Locations:

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)