Bound for freedom : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America /
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...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2005.
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| Series: | George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnk1t |