Jennifer Mandel - The Coveted Westside: How the Black Homeowners Rights Movement Shaped Modern Los Angeles

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The Coveted Westside: How the Black Homeowners Rights Movement Shaped Modern Los Angeles

by Jennifer Mandel

University of Nevada Press | Reno, Nevada 89557 USA
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Names: Mandel, Jennifer, 1975 author.

Title: The coveted westside : how the Black homeowners rights movement shaped modern Los Angeles / Jennifer Mandel.

Other titles: Urban West.

Description: Reno ; Las Vegas : University of Nevada Press, [2022] |

Series: The Urban West series | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary: 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 citys distinguished neighborhoods of West Adams Heights in the 1940s and the Crenshaw area, View Park, View Heights, and Windsor Hills in the postwar era hubs in the fight for fair housing Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021041576 | ISBN 9781647790349 (paperback) | ISBN 9781647790356 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: African AmericansHousingCaliforniaLos AngelesHistory20th century. | Discrimination in housingCaliforniaLos AngelesHistory20th century. | Housing policyCaliforniaLos AngelesHistory20th century.

Classification: LCC HD7288.76.U52 M355 2022 | DDC 363.509794/94dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021041576

For my mother and grandparents
who instilled in me an appreciation for the past,
and my history professors who taught me to interrogate it.