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Selected scholarship and essays from The Toro Historical Review archive.

2017-09-29

The Los Angeles Freeway and the History of Community Displacement

The Great Wall of L.A . mural was created by Judith Baca and was part of a beautification program of a flood control canal in the city of Valley Glen, California, by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1974. The image depicting the impact of the building of Dodger…
2016-08-01

Cattle and Oil: The Dominguez Struggle for Status

California has been under control under the Spanish and then the Mexican governments with the final acquisition going to the Americans. Within in this time frame, there has always been an elite class who were at the top of the social order in the Los Angeles…