ISBN:
9781647790349
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 351 pages
Series Statement:
The Urban West series
DDC:
363.509794/94
Keywords:
African Americans Housing 20th century
;
History
;
Discrimination in housing History 20th century
;
Housing policy History 20th century
;
Los Angeles, Calif.
;
Schwarze
;
Wohnungspolitik
;
Diskriminierung
;
Soziale Bewegung
;
Geschichte 1930-1970
Abstract:
"The Coveted Westside explores the middle-class African American-led movement to challenge housing discrimination, gain equal access to twentieth-century Los Angeles, and ward off resegregation. Black professionals, from actors to entrepreneurs to doctors, made the city's distinguished neighborhoods of West Adams Heights in the 1940s and the Crenshaw area, View Park, View Heights, and Windsor Hillsin the postwar era hubs in the fight for fair housing"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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