<span>The largest influx of black Americans came from the south during the Depression like whites and during the war when there was war work for them in shipyards in Oakland and airplane factories in Los Angeles like everyone else and they stayed. They could get better jobs in California than picking cotton or being a boot black. It was after the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s that black people were more able to get housing in places other than South Central L.A. or the ghettoes after the anti-discrimination laws were passed. They could never rent or buy places in most neighborhoods</span>
