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

Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America

Douglas Flamming

485 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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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 t...

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