The Great Black Way: L.A. in the 1940s and the Lost African-American Renaissance by R.J. Smith

The Great Black Way: L.A. in the 1940s and the Lost African-American Renaissance

R.J. Smith

320 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history music challenging informative slow-paced
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This book, like a major archaeological dig, unearths a littleknown, now vanished civilization and changes how we understand history. In the 1940s, when FDR opened up the defense industry to black workers, it inspired a massive wave of black migrat...

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