Sacramento Renaissance:: Art, Music and Activism in California's Capital City (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609499396)

Touted as progress, postwar redevelopment spawned a new age in Sacramento, California. As city planners designated areas of urban blight and directed bulldozers to make way for commercial districts and pedestrian malls, the churches, jazz clubs and family homes of the West End and Japantown were upended and residents scattered. Displaced families and businesses reestablished themselves and redefined their communities around new cultural centers. Historian William Burg weaves oral histories with previously unpublished photographs to chronicle the resurgence of Sacramento's art, music and activism in the wake of redevelopment. Celebrate the individuals and organizations that defined an era: the beatniks and Black Panthers of Oak Park, Southside Park's League of Nations," George Raya of Lavender Heights and the Royal Chicano Air Force in Alkali Flat."

Author: William Burg
ISBN-10: 1609499395
ISBN-13: 9781609499396
Publisher: History Press
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2013
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.03h x 5.93w x 0.50d