West of Jim Crow : the fight against California's color line / Lynn M. Hudson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hudson, Lynn M. (Lynn Maria), 1961- author.

Series:

Illinois scholarship online.

Illinois scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Segregation--California--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights--California--History.

Racism--California--History.

Racism.

California--Race relations--History.

California.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021.

Summary:

This text follows California's history of segregation from statehood to the beginning of the long civil rights movement, arguing that the state innovated methods to control and contain African Americans and other people of colour.

Contents:

Freedom Claims: Reconstructing the Golden State

"This Is Our Fair and Our State": Race Women, Race Men, and the Panama Pacific International Exposition

"The Best Proposition Ever Offered to Negroes in the State": Building an All-Black Town

A Lesson in Lynching

Burning Down the House: California's Ku Klux Klan

The Only Difference between Pasadena and Mississippi Is the Way They're Spelled: Swimming in Southern California

Remembering (and Forgetting) Jim Crow.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 30, 2021).

Previously issued in print: 2020.

ISBN:

9780252043345

0252043340

OCLC:

1141019126