African Americans In Los Angeles
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African Americans In Los Angeles
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Author : Karin L. Stanford
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2010
African Americans In Los Angeles written by Karin L. Stanford and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
The notion of Los Angeles as a wonderful place of opportunity contributed to the western migration of thousands of Americans, including African Americans escaping racism and violence in the South. But Los Angeles blacks encountered a white backlash, and the doors of opportunity were closed in the form of housing covenants, job discrimination, and school segregation. African Americans fought for equality, building strength in community and collective identity that became their ongoing Los Angeles legacy. This story, encapsulated here in vintage photographs, encompasses the settlers of African descent, antislavery and antidiscrimination efforts, and their cultural contributions on Central Avenue and in Hollywood. Also shown are important flash points, including the 1965 Watts uprising and the O. J. Simpson murder trial. The story of African Americans in Los Angeles is one of promise, dreams, and opportunity realized through survival, willfulness, and foresight.
Black Los Angeles
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Author : Darnell M. Hunt
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2010-04-29
Black Los Angeles written by Darnell M. Hunt and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-29 with Social Science categories.
Naráyana’s best-seller gives its reader much more than “Friendly Advice.” In one handy collection—closely related to the world-famous Pañcatantra or Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom —numerous animal fables are interwoven with human stories, all designed to instruct wayward princes. Tales of canny procuresses compete with those of cunning crows and tigers. An intrusive ass is simply thrashed by his master, but the meddlesome monkey ends up with his testicles crushed. One prince manages to enjoy himself with a merchant’s wife with her husband’s consent, while another is kicked out of paradise by a painted image. This volume also contains the compact version of King Víkrama’s Adventures, thirty-two popular tales about a generous emperor, told by thirty-two statuettes adorning his lion-throne. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org
L A City Limits
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Author : Josh Sides
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2004-01-27
L A City Limits written by Josh Sides and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-27 with History categories.
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.
Making Black Los Angeles
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Author : Marne L. Campbell
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2016-09-27
Making Black Los Angeles written by Marne L. Campbell and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-27 with Social Science categories.
Black Los Angeles started small. The first census of the newly formed Los Angeles County in 1850 recorded only twelve Americans of African descent alongside a population of more than 3,500 Anglo Americans. Over the following seventy years, however, the African American founding families of Los Angeles forged a vibrant community within the increasingly segregated and stratified city. In this book, historian Marne L. Campbell examines the intersections of race, class, and gender to produce a social history of community formation and cultural expression in Los Angeles. Expanding on the traditional narrative of middle-class uplift, Campbell demonstrates that the black working class, largely through the efforts of women, fought to secure their own economic and social freedom by forging communal bonds with black elites and other communities of color. This women-led, black working-class agency and cross-racial community building, Campbell argues, was markedly more successful in Los Angeles than in any other region in the country. Drawing from an extensive database of all African American households between 1850 and 1910, Campbell vividly tells the story of how middle-class African Americans were able to live, work, and establish a community of their own in the growing city of Los Angeles.
Seeking El Dorado
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Author : Lawrence B. de Graaf
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2014-07-01
Seeking El Dorado written by Lawrence B. de Graaf and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with History categories.
From the 18th century, African Americans, like many others, have migrated to California to seek fortunes or, often, the more modest goals of being able to find work, own a home, and raise a family relatively free of discrimination. Not only their search but also its outcome is covered in Seeking El Dorado. Whether they settled in major cities or smaller towns, African Americans created institutions and organizations—churches, social clubs, literary societies, fraternal orders, civil rights organizations—that embodied the legacy of their past and the values they shared. Blacks came in search of the same jobs as other Americans, but the search often proved frustrating. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, African American leadership in the state consistently focused on achieving racial justice. The essays in this book speak of triumph and hardship, success, discrimination, and disappointment. Seeking El Dorado is a major contribution to black history and the history of the American West and will be of interest to both scholars and general readers.
Bound For Freedom
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Author : Douglas Flamming
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2005-01-24
Bound For Freedom written by Douglas Flamming and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-24 with History categories.
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 until now, detailing African American community life and political activism during the city's transformation from small town to sprawling metropolis. Writing with a novelist's sensitivity to language and drawing from fresh historical research, Douglas Flamming takes us from Reconstruction to the Jim Crow era, through the Great Migration, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the build-up to World War II. Along the way, he offers rich descriptions of the community and its middle-class leadership, the women who were front and center with men in the battle against racism in the American West. In addition to drawing a vivid portrait of a little-known era, Flamming shows that the history of race in Los Angeles is crucial for our understanding of race in America. The civil rights activism in Los Angeles laid the foundation for critical developments in the second half of the century that continue to influence us to this day.
The Coveted Westside
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Author : Jennifer Mandel
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2022-03-29
The Coveted Westside written by Jennifer Mandel and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-29 with History categories.
From the middle of the nineteenth century, as Euro-Americans moved westward, they carried with them long-held prejudices against people of color. By the time they reached the West Coast, their new settlements included African Americans and recent Asian immigrants, as well as the indigenous inhabitants and descendants of earlier Spanish and Mexican settlers. The Coveted Westside deals with the settlement and development of Los Angeles in the context of its multiracial, multiethnic population, especially African Americans. Mandel exposes the enduring struggle between Whites determined to establish their hegemony and create residential heterogeneity in the growing city, and people of color equally determined to obtain full access to the city and the opportunities, including residential, that it offered. Not only does this book document the Black homeowners’ fight against housing discrimination, it shares personal accounts of Blacks’ efforts to settle in the highly desirable Westside of Los Angeles. Mandel explores the White-derived social and legal mechanisms that created this segregated city and the African American-led movement that challenged efforts to block access to fair housing.
Black And Brown In Los Angeles
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Author : Josh Kun
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014
Black And Brown In Los Angeles written by Josh Kun and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Business & Economics categories.
Black and Brown in Los Angeles is a timely and wide-ranging, interdisciplinary foray into the complicated world of multiethnic Los Angeles. The first book to focus exclusively on the range of relationships and interactions between Latinas/os and African Americans in one of the most diverse cities in the United States, the book delivers supporting evidence that Los Angeles is a key place to study racial politics while also providing the basis for broader discussions of multiethnic America. Students, faculty, and interested readers will gain an understanding of the different forms of cultural borrowing and exchange that have shaped a terrain through which African Americans and Latinas/os cross paths, intersect, move in parallel tracks, and engage with a whole range of aspects of urban living. Tensions and shared intimacies are recurrent themes that emerge as the contributors seek to integrate artistic and cultural constructs with politics and economics in their goal of extending simple paradigms of conflict, cooperation, or coalition. The book features essays by historians, economists, and cultural and ethnic studies scholars, alongside contributions by photographers and journalists working in Los Angeles.
Who S Who In Black Los Angeles
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Who S Who In Black Los Angeles written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with African American businesspeople categories.
Los Angeles Citywide Historic Context Statement
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Author : Alison R. Jefferson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Los Angeles Citywide Historic Context Statement written by Alison R. Jefferson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with African Americans categories.
This context provides a framework for identifying and evaluating properties relating to African American history in Los Angeles. It is not intended to be a comprehensive history of the African American community. SurveyLA's citywide historic context statement covers the period from about 1781 to 1980. This context provides a broad historical overview on the events that shaped the lives of African Americans in Los Angeles and then focuses on the various themes and geographic areas associated with important extant resources. As the narrative reveals, these resources date primarily from the 1920s to the 1970s.--Page 5.