| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.2

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Book Review

Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America. By Douglas Flamming. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xviii + 467 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

Douglas Flamming in his stunning, meticulous, and highly accessible history of "Black Angelenos" during the Jim Crow era, maintains that Los Angeles, California, was founded by people of African descent in 1781, and that black people also played a critical role in the city's emergence during the first four decades before World War II. In Bound for Freedom, Flamming, associate professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology, underscores the extent to which southern blacks endeavored to secure, define, and give meaning to freedom following Reconstruction by fleeing the South's malevolent race relations and oppressive economic environment and migrating west to the "City of the Angels."

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