Dr. Francisco Balderrama shares insight about Repatriation in the 1930s when people of Mexican ancestry were rounded up and forcefully deported to Mexico without any due process. An estimated 1.2 million of these people were United States citizens.
Producer-Director Walter Dominguez recently visited one of Los Angeles’ important historic theaters, the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse, and recorded this video mini-tour.
Watch a short featurette called “Stories From Los Angeles” featuring parts from two of our favorite interviews; Los Angeles historian, George Sanchez, and a delightful Los Angeles resident, Jack Sanchez (no relation).
Rosa Lemus Carlos grew up at Simons Brick Company Yard No. 3 in Montebello, California, her father a decades-long employee there.
Executive Producer and noted historian William Deverell talks about the 1924 Los Angeles Plague Epidemic, the subsequent quarantine of ethnic neighborhoods and the effects both had on Los Angeles society and especially on ethnic Latinos and other minorities.
