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The golden fortress : California's border war on dust bowl refugees / Bill Lascher.

Lascher, Bill, (author.).

Summary:

"In February 1936, Los Angeles police officers drove hundreds of miles to California’s state borders with one mission: turn back anyone deemed too poor to enter. Myths of the Golden State’s abundance enticed thousands of Americans uprooted by the Depression, but those who created those myths saw only invading criminal “hordes” that they believed just one man could stop: James “Two-Gun” Davis, Los Angeles's authoritarian police chief. The Golden Fortress tells the story of Davis’s audacious deployment of hand-picked armed police slamming California’s door on America’s Dust Bowl refugees and Depression-displaced migrants. It depicts the sometimes deadly consequences of law enforcement politicized and weaponized against the poor, even in remote places like Modoc County, where a sheriff’s opposition to the blockade inflamed an already smoldering feud between an itinerant newsman and a publisher obsessed with her California heritage"-- Amazon.com.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781641606042
  • ISBN: 1641606045
  • Physical Description: viii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2022]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-219) and index.
Subject: Migration, Internal > United States > History > 20th century.
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.
California > History > 20th century.
California > Social conditions > 20th century.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Missouri Evergreen.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Jefferson County. (Show)

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Jefferson County Library-Arnold 979.4052 LASCHER (Text) 30061100067244 Non-Fiction Available -

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The Golden Fortress : California's Border War on Dust Bowl Refugees
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The Golden Fortress : California's Border War on Dust Bowl Refugees

SectionSection DescriptionPage Number
Prologue: Here and There, Now and Thenp. v
1    The "Bum Blockade"p. 1
Part IFuse
2    Children of the Golden Westp. 17
3    City of Dreamsp. 35
4    Regime Changep. 51
Part IIFuel
5    Red Dust, Red Menacep. 71
6    State of Emergencyp. 87
7    Sunsetp. 101
Part IIISpark
8    The Gate Slams Shutp. 115
9    It Can Happen Herep. 131
10    Backlashp. 147
11    Aftershockp. 163
12    Off Goes the Lidp. 175
13    "Basic to Any Guarantee of Freedom"p. 189
Conclusion: Attacking Democracy to Save Democracyp. 201
Notesp. 211
Indexp. 221

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