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Sides, Josh. L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Taylor, Quintard. In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.

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“BOSS: The Black Experience in Business.” Film directed by Stanley Nelson.

Butler, John Sibley. Entrepreneurship and Self help Among Black Americans, A Reconsideration of Race and Economics. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005.

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Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company records

Golden State was founded in Los Angeles in 1925 and continued until 2009. In its heyday, it was one of the largest black-owned businesses in the United States.

UCLA Library Special Collections

Library Special Collections holdings on African American history.

UCLA Library Center for Oral History Research

Black Leadership in Los Angeles

Includes oral histories with Golden State Mutual officers George A. Beavers and Ivan J. Houston and Angelus Funeral Home owner and radio station KJLH founder John Lamar Hill II, among others.

Central Avenue Sounds Oral History Project

Interviews with musicians who played jazz on Central Avenue in the 1920s, ‘30s, and ‘40s.

"Where Do We Go from Here?" Histories of Long-term Black Business Ownership, Community, and Family in Los Angeles County

African American History in Los Angeles

Additional oral histories done by the UCLA Center for Oral History Research that document African American history in Los Angeles.

Oral histories of African Americans in Pasadena

Photographs of African Americans in Pasadena

Oral histories of African Americans in Los Angeles

Photographs of Los Angeles African American communities