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West of Jim Crow:

The Fight against California's Color Line

ISBN-13: 9780252043345
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
By Lynn M. Hudson
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Local release date: 14/10/2020
Format: Hardback 352 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Sociology & anthropology [JH]

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African Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial segregation. As one transplant put it, ""The only difference between Pasadena and Mississippi is the way they are spelled."" From the beaches to streetcars to schools, the Golden State'in contrast to its reputation for tolerance'perfected many methods of controlling people of color.

Lynn M. Hudson deepens our understanding of the practices that African Americans in the West deployed to dismantle Jim Crow in the quest for civil rights prior to the 1960s. Faced with institutionalized racism, black Californians used both established and improvised tactics to resist and survive the state's color line. Hudson rediscovers forgotten stories like the experimental all-black community of Allensworth, the California Ku Klux Klan's campaign of terror against African Americans, the bitter struggle to integrate public swimming pools in Pasadena and elsewhere, and segregationists' preoccupation with gender and sexuality.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Freedom Claims: Reconstructing the Golden State
2 This is Our Fair and Our Statea: Race Women, Race Men, and the Panama Pacific International Exposition
3 The Best Proposition Ever Offered to Negroes in the Statea: Building an All-Black Town
4 A Lesson in Lynching
5 Burning Down the House: California's Ku Klux Klan
6 The Only Difference Between Pasadena and Mississippi is the Way They Are Spelleda: Swimming in the Southland
Epilogue: Remembering (and Forgetting) Jim Crow
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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