Los Angeles's Central Avenue Jazz - Paperback

by Sean O'Connell (Author)

From the late 1910s until the early 1950s, a series of aggressive segregation policies toward Los Angeles's rapidly expanding African American community inadvertently led to one of the most culturally rich avenues in the United States. From Downtown L

Author Biography

Musician, writer, tour guide, and historian Sean J. O'Connell has pieced together the swinging history of Los Angeles's Central Avenue through extensive photograph archives such as the Los Angeles Public Libraries' Shades of LA as well as the firsthand accounts of those who walked, played, and listened amid the vibrant sidewalks of mid-century South Central Los Angeles.