By Wendi Zhou (Autumn 2020 student)
After the end of Japanese American internment, many Japanese Americans returned to their homes in LA’s “Little Tokyo” to find it nicknamed “Bronzeville.” The area had been settled by African-American migrants who moved west during the Great Migration. This podcast explores the racial tensions and multi-cultural alliances that emerged in this LA neighborhood.
Listen to Multiculturalism and Racial Conflict in LA’s ‘Little Bronze Tokyo’ here.
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