Theme: World War II created a massive migration by blacks from the South which nationalized racial tensions that had remained isolated in the South. Ultimately, as blacks failed to share the wealth of the postwar era, these tensions would explode in urban riots.

1) World War II--The Second Gold Rush

-- California Dominance

-- Federal Spending

ð Shipbuilding

ð Aircraft Industry

2) African Americans and the War

-- Southern Blacks Head West

-- Seattle: The Central District Becomes a Ghetto

-- Wartime Growth and Restrictions

-- Postwar Patterns

-- Restrictive Covenants

-- Hope

-- Economic Downturn and Suburbanization

-- Richmond: From War Housing to Ghetto

ð Overcrowding

ð Housing

-- Watts

3) Postwar Race Relations

-- Civil Rights Gains

-- Court Rulings

-- Private Discrimination

-- Proposition 14

-- Conditions in Watts

-- Police Repression

-- Watts, August 1965