Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America

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Acknowledgments List of Maps Where We Begin Part One. Staking a Claim in the West Arrival 1. Southern Roots, Western Dreams 2. The Conditions of Heaven 3. Claiming Central Avenue 4. Civic Engagement 5. Politics and Patriotism Part Two. Civil Rights as a Way of Life 6. Fighting Spirit in the Twenties 7. The Business of Race 8. Surging Down Central 9. Responding to the Depression 10. Race and the New Deal Liberalism Departure Appendixes and Tables Notes Bibliography Index