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Radical L.A.: From Coxey's Army to the Watts Riots, 1894-1965

Radical L.A.: From Coxey's Army to the Watts Riots, 1894-1965

Stevens, Errol Wayne

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General Political ScienceGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 080614002X
ISBN13: 9780806140025
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: May 1 2009
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
When the depression of the 1890s prompted unemployed workers from Los Angeles to join a nationwide march on Washington, Coxey's Army marked the birth of radicalism in that city. In this first book to trace the subsequent struggle between the radical left and L.A.'s power structure, Errol Wayne Stevens tells how both sides shaped the city's character from the turn of the twentieth century through the civil rights era.

On the radical right, Los Angeles's business elite, supported by the Los Angeles Times, sought the destruction of the trade-union movement--defended on the left by socialists, Wobblies, communists, and other groups. In portraying the conflict between leftist and capitalist visions for the future, Stevens brings to life colorful personalities such as Times publisher Harrison Gray Otis and Socialist mayoral candidate Job Harriman. He also re-creates events such as the 1910 bombing of the Times building, the savage suppression of the 1923 longshoremen's strike, and the 1965 Watts riots, which signaled that L.A. politics had become divided less along class lines than by complex racial and ethnic differences.

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