Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America
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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?...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520249909
ISBN13:9780520249905
Release Date:May 2015
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:485 Pages
Weight:1.75 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 5.9" x 8.7"
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