Douglas Flamming is Associate Professor of History at the Georgia Institute of Technology and author of Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884-1984 (1992), winner of the Philip Taft Labor History Award.

"A masterful and moving account of the black community in Los Angeles during the first half of the 20th century.... Urgent and intimate, lively and even endearing." - Los Angeles Times Book Review "Densely populated with rich personal detail and provocative interpretation." - Library Journal"

• Acknowledgments List of Maps Where We Begin Part One. Staking a Claim in the West Arrival 1. Southern Roots, Western Dreams 2. The Conditions of Heaven 3. Claiming Central Avenue 4. Civic Engagement 5. Politics and Patriotism Part Two. Civil Rights as a Way of Life 6. Fighting Spirit in the Twenties 7. The Business of Race 8. Surging Down Central 9. Responding to the Depression 10. Race and the New Deal Liberalism Departure Appendixes and Tables Notes Bibliography Index

Douglas Flamming is Associate Professor of History at the Georgia Institute of Technology and author of Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884-1984 (1992), winner of the Philip Taft Labor History Award.

"A masterful and moving account of the black community in Los Angeles during the first half of the 20th century.... Urgent and intimate, lively and even endearing." - Los Angeles Times Book Review "Densely populated with rich personal detail and provocative interpretation." - Library Journal"

• Acknowledgments List of Maps Where We Begin Part One. Staking a Claim in the West Arrival 1. Southern Roots, Western Dreams 2. The Conditions of Heaven 3. Claiming Central Avenue 4. Civic Engagement 5. Politics and Patriotism Part Two. Civil Rights as a Way of Life 6. Fighting Spirit in the Twenties 7. The Business of Race 8. Surging Down Central 9. Responding to the Depression 10. Race and the New Deal Liberalism Departure Appendixes and Tables Notes Bibliography Index

Douglas Flamming is Associate Professor of History at the Georgia Institute of Technology and author of Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884-1984 (1992), winner of the Philip Taft Labor History Award.

"A masterful and moving account of the black community in Los Angeles during the first half of the 20th century.... Urgent and intimate, lively and even endearing." - Los Angeles Times Book Review "Densely populated with rich personal detail and provocative interpretation." - Library Journal"

• Acknowledgments List of Maps Where We Begin Part One. Staking a Claim in the West Arrival 1. Southern Roots, Western Dreams 2. The Conditions of Heaven 3. Claiming Central Avenue 4. Civic Engagement 5. Politics and Patriotism Part Two. Civil Rights as a Way of Life 6. Fighting Spirit in the Twenties 7. The Business of Race 8. Surging Down Central 9. Responding to the Depression 10. Race and the New Deal Liberalism Departure Appendixes and Tables Notes Bibliography Index