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Living the California dream : African American leisure sites during the Jim Crow era /

Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America's "frontier of leisure" by creating communities and business projects in conjunction with their growing population in southern California during the nation's Jim Crow era.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jefferson, Alison R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
Subjects:
African Americans > Recreation > California, Southern > History > 20th century.
Leisure > Social aspects > California, Southern > History > 20th century.
Resorts > Social aspects > California, Southern > History > 20th century.
African American neighborhoods > California, Southern > History > 20th century.
Discrimination in public accommodations > California, Southern > History > 20th century.
African Americans > California, Southern > Social conditions > 20th century.
California, Southern > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Description
Summary:Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America's "frontier of leisure" by creating communities and business projects in conjunction with their growing population in southern California during the nation's Jim Crow era.
Physical Description:xi, 315 pages, 34 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781496201300
1496201302