From June 3 to June 13, 1943, servicemen stationed at the Chavez Ravine naval station randomly beat up young Mexican American and Black men throughout Los Angeles. The sailors brutalized their victims and left them lying in the streets; police and sheriffs then arrested victims instead of their attackers. Great Wall of Los Angeles by [...]

Built in 1925, the structure helps document the history of the Japanese American community in the first half of the 20th century in Little Tokyo and represents the mixed-use building of apartments over stores once prominent in Los Angeles.
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A lifetime ago, the Yamaguchi family labored long and hard in a chop-suey shop in downtown Los Angeles to send their son, Kei, to university, hoping it would give him the chance for a better life.
World War II interrupted the immigrant family’s dreams, but on Saturday, Kei Yamaguchi finally received his degree from UCLA — [...]

The City Project celebrates Women’s History Month

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The City Project Celebrates Women’s History Month.

Born a slave in Mississippi in 1818, Biddy Mason walked behind her owner’s wagon, first to Utah then to Los Angeles. A federal judge freed her in 1856, before the United States Supreme Court held that slaves were not people protected by the United States Constitution in the Dred [...]

The City Project celebrates Women’s History Month.

Judy Baca at the Woman’s Building 2004.
The Woman’s Building transformed feminist outrage into an iconoclastic Los Angeles institution that for 18 years was a magnet for women seeking to produce art on their own terms. The Woman’s Building was founded in 1973 by Arlene Raven, an art historian, critic [...]

64 El Pueblo Plaza de Los Angeles
This historic public space was laid out in 1818. The present location is the third and final location, having moved there in the mid 1800s. Often ringed in for Sunday bullfights in the 1830s and 1840s, the Plaza was surrounded by homes of rancheros and public buildings [...]

View of the west side of the Los Angeles City Market
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Raul Macias Field at L.A. River Center Grand Opening Jan. 24, 2009 Robert Garcia, Robbie LaBelle, and Raul Macias with Anahuak youth.
Grand Opening January 24, 2009
A native of Guadalajara, Mexico, Raul Macias founded Anahuak Youth Sports Association in 1997 to give children in communities close to the Los Angeles River in Northeast Los Angeles opportunities [...]

MACHINE SHOP (ca. 1915), now occupied by Casa California, was built as a machine shop fronting onto Main Street. As its architecture resembles other commercial buildings in Los Angeles constructed in 1910, it is possible that it was built in that year. After Christine Sterling transformed Olvera Street in 1930, the building was used for [...]