Radical L.A.
Subtitle: from Coxey's Army to the Watts riots, 1894-1965
By: Errol Wayne Stevens.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780806140025
Subjects: Radicalism -- California -- Los Angeles -- History; Right and left (Political science); Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "the most terrible day in the history of Los Angeles"; title: A city divided; title: An island no more; title: Socialism and labor in the city of the open shop; title: The scabbiest town on earth; title: The fall of the Socialist party; title: Wobblies, war, and repression; title: Trouble on the waterfront; title: The changing of the guard; title: Hard times and big ideas; title: The new deal in Los Angeles; title: Labor and race in wartime Los Angeles; title: The anti-communist crusade; title: Conclusion : 1965; title: year of change.