Los Angeles

In the early 1950s, the Los Angeles public began to hear about the forcible evictions taking place in an area known as Chavez Ravine, located on the north-east hills of Los Angeles. Chavez Ravine was largely populated by a tight-knit community of Mexican…

This paper highlights the racism that permeated Labor Unions across Los Angeles while determining the methods that African American men and women employed in order to successfully lobby not only the unions themselves but the United States government in cases…

Chinese immigrants in the mid 1800’s faced legislative discrimination as well as a brutal race-riot to establish themselves in Los Angeles. The organizations called huiguans they had developed to support travelers in China played an important role in…

From the 1900s to the 1930s, the Anglo power structure in Los Angles silenced all groups who challenged their rule. Ricardo Flores Magón, who was the intellectual writer for the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century, resisted the Mexican dictator…

The action perpetrated against Japanese American citizens and immigrants by the United States of America during 1942-1945 is often defined as “internment.” However, I feel these words have historically been politically motivated to soften and erroneously…

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…

In post- war Los Angeles, were two opposing Anglo agendas, both of which had one resulting commonality: the uprooting of a long established minority/low income community because it represented to them an expendable and replaceable eyesore. Several historians…

This essay explores the stories of Chinese and Japanese immigration to the greater Los Angeles area. Both stories mirror several other immigration histories in America. Both groups were able to establish footholds in the developing economy of the West amidst…

Joy Harjo, of the Mvskoke Nation, is a contemporary poet and musician. Her poem The Path to the Milky Way Leads Through Los Angeles , shares the sadness indigenous people feel in the land that once belonged to them. In a place where indigenous people have…

Los Angeles today continues to undergo massive land and city development to sustain and provide for the growing city. The city has become a multi-ethnic metropolis, housing and providing for diverse communities as it has since the beginning of development.…

The history of Los Angeles, California shares a split image amongst Americans as a city of romantic beaches and lavish lifestyles intertwined with an enormous street gang culture. Television and music associates African American neighborhoods with the rap…

Los Angeles is generally not part of the discussion when it comes to the Civil War. The Civil War took place on the east coast, thousands of miles from this frontier town, but the people living in Los Angeles still considered themselves as part of the…

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…

Throughout the history of America, there have been countless rebellions and revolutions. When Americans have felt as though they were being treated unfairly, they have taken up arms against those against them. The beginning of American history included a…