The Coveted Westside
How the Black Homeowners' Rights Movement Shaped Modern Los Angeles
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Nevada Press
Published:29th Mar '22
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
ISBN: 9781647790349
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 363g
372 pages