The Coveted Westside: How the Black Homeowners' Rights Movement Shaped Modern Los Angeles - Mandel, Jennifer
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The Coveted Westside explores the middle-class African American-led movement to challenge housing discrimination, gain equal access to twentieth-century Los Angeles, and ward off resegregation. Black professionals, from actors to entrepreneurs to doctors, made the city's distinguished neighborhoods of West Adams Heights in the 1940s and the Crenshaw area, View Park, View Heights, and Windsor Hillsin the postwar era hubs in the fight for fair housing.

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The Coveted Westside explores the middle-class African American-led movement to challenge housing discrimination, gain equal access to twentieth-century Los Angeles, and ward off resegregation. Black professionals, from actors to entrepreneurs to doctors, made the city's distinguished neighborhoods of West Adams Heights in the 1940s and the Crenshaw area, View Park, View Heights, and Windsor Hillsin the postwar era hubs in the fight for fair housing.
Autorenporträt
Jennifer Mandel, PhD, serves as associate director of assessment in the University of New England's Office of the Provost. In addition to her administrative role, she has taught history courses at the University of New England, Granite State College, Hesser College, and the University of New Hampshire. Mandel has published work on African American journalist and activist Almena Lomax in the Southern California Quarterly. She was born and raised in Los Angeles