The Elusive Eden

Chapter Twenty-Five

1. What were the “Palm-Tree Ghettos?”
2. What was “Jim Crow?”
3. What was the March on Washington?
4. Who was “Bull” Connors?
5. What was unusual about “the ghetto” in Los Angeles?
6. How would a “Little Italy” or “Over the Rhine” contrast with a typical “Chinatown?”
7. What connection did the Pico family have with Africans?
8. Who were Biddy Mason, Robert Owens and John Strother Griffen?
9. How did the population of African-Americans in Los Angeles change between 1880 and 1920?
10. What was most significant about Los Angeles and the population of African-Americans living west of the Mississippi river?
11. What was the Afro-American Protective Association?
12. What was The California Eagle?
13. What were W.E.B. DuBois, the NAACP, and The Crisis?
14. What percentage of African-American owned their own homes in Los Angeles in 1930?
15. What connection existed between Birth of a Nation, Nativism, Xenophobia, and the Red Scare?
16. How did African migration to Los Angeles change by 1925?
17. What accounts for the Klan revival?
18. What were de facto boundaries?
19. What was Los Angeles Investment Co. vs. Albert Gary?
20. What happened to the City of Watts?
21. Who was Simon Radia?
22. How did the percentage of the Africa-American population change between 1930 and 1960?
23. What was the Fair Employment Practices Law?
24. What was the Rumford Fair Housing Act and Proposition 14?
25. What were the causes of the Watts riots?
26. What was the catalyst?
27. Who was Marquette Frye?
28. Who was William Parker?
29. What was the Athens Park meeting?
30. Who was Augustus Hawkins?
31. Who were Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, Glenn Anderson and Sam Yorty?
32. Why were California’s leaders so slow in realizing the seriousness of the riots?
33. When did the riot start, where did the riot take place, and how long did it last?
34. What part did snipers play in the riots?
35. When was the California National Guard finally called in and why was this course taken so slowly?
36. How many troops were involved?
37. How many rioters participated?
38. How many people were injured and killed?
39. What was the McCone Commision? What did it conclude?
40. What was the Great Society?
41. What were the lasting effects of the riots?