Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America by Flamming, Douglas - 2005

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Berkeley. 2005. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0520239199. 485 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Victoria Kuskowski. keywords: History Black Los Angeles America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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… Read More