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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…