Category Archive: 'Urban Parks Movement'
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park commemorates Colonel Allen Allensworth and the only California town to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans. Colonel Allen Allensworth founded the town in 1908. Colonel Allensworth, born a slave, served in the Army and Navy and retired as lieutenant colonel, the highest ranking black in the armed forces. [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Heritage Parkscape, Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy, Public Art, Urban Parks Movement
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
“Grant Park, known as Lake Park until it was renamed for Ulysses S. Grant in 1901, lies not far from the route of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession, was the home of at least four political conventions in the late 1800s, was visited by Queen Elizabeth II in 1959, was the site of a clash between [...]
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park commemorates Colonel Allen Allensworth and the only California town to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans. Colonel Allen Allensworth founded the town in 1908. Colonel Allensworth, born a slave, served in the Army and Navy and retired as lieutenant colonel, the highest ranking black in the armed forces. [...]
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Founded in 1887 by a small group of Chinese Christians, the church was located on North Los Angeles Street, just a few buildings from where the Chinese American Museum now stands. It was the first church in Chinatown. In 1947, the church moved to 825 North Hill Street, where it is located today.
Visit the [...]
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park commemorates Colonel Allen Allensworth and the only California town to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans. Colonel Allen Allensworth founded the town in 1908. Colonel Allensworth, born a slave, served in the Army and Navy and retired as lieutenant colonel, the highest ranking black in the armed forces. [...]
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
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9:42 AM, October 18, 2008
There’s been much controversy about the boom in oil drilling around Baldwin Hills, where residents say the oil wells are noisy, unsightly and potentially unhealthy. Well, L.A. County officials now have an idea for dealing with the unsightly part: Plant [...]
Posted in Baldwin Hills, Diversifying Democracy, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Urban Parks Movement
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Modeled after a church in Barcelona, Spain, the Cathedral of St. Vibiana was the first cathedral for the Roman Catholic Archdioceses of Monterey and Los Angeles. It was constructed between 1871 and 1876, when 3,000 of Los Angeles’s 5,500 residents were Catholic. Cardinal Roger Mahony proposed that the Cathedral be torn down after it was [...]
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park commemorates Colonel Allen Allensworth and the only California town to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans. Colonel Allen Allensworth founded the town in 1908. Colonel Allensworth, born a slave, served in the Army and Navy and retired as lieutenant colonel, the highest ranking black in the armed forces. [...]
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Chinatown’s first location in Los Angeles was around Calle de los Negros (”Nigger Alley”), a rundown street that was home to brothels and plagued by crime. The earliest Chinese began arriving in 1850 in search of gold. By 1900, Old Chinatown was a mostly-male ghetto because the Chinese Exclusion Act prevented immigration of women. In [...]
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
The Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance is demanding that the Baldwin Hills oil field regulations be consistent with the Final Environmental Report that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved on October 21, 2008, and the actions of the Regional Planning Commission. The Board is scheduled to take action on October 28, 2008.
In order to [...]
Posted in Baldwin Hills, Diversifying Democracy, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Urban Parks Movement