By Walter Dominguez, on August 19th, 2012%
 For those amongst Los Angeles’ seniors who are of a racial minority background, the memories of Los Angeles as a racially segregated city are still fresh and painfully raw. Even as late as the early 1980s, Black Angelenos could not buy or rent homes in many areas of the city and surrounding suburbs. But even restaurants, . . . → Read More: LA’s Oasis for African Americans – Val Verde
By Walter Dominguez, on March 27th, 2011%
 The gargantuan earthquake that unleashed on March 11 under the Pacific Ocean just off the coast of northern Japan was so powerful that it shifted the axis of the earth and caused the planet to spin faster; it moved the entire island nation eight feet to the east. What this event did to the nation of . . . → Read More: Waves from Japan
By Walter Dominguez, on January 17th, 2011%
 On this Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday, it is important to remember that Los Angeles played a significant role in the saga of the African American struggle for civil rights. Los Angeles became a haven for African American families looking for refuge from the ugliness and terror aimed at them in the post-Civil War South. . . . → Read More: The Great Migration to Los Angeles
By Walter Dominguez, on January 9th, 2011%
 The treaty of surrender by California’s Mexican troops to conquering Americans in January, 1847 set into motion
transformations in California and Los Angeles that continue today. . . . → Read More: The Treaty That Changed Los Angeles
By Walter Dominguez, on January 1st, 2011%
 Praxedis Gilberto Guerrero died one hundred years ago on the morning of December 30, 1910. He died a hero for the cause of revolution in his deeply troubled homeland, Mexico. Mexico was collapsing under the oppressive weight of decades of the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz and the oligarchs who benefited immensely and disproportionally from his policies. . . . → Read More: A Time of Justice – Praxedis Guerrero
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Read The Book This project is based on William Deverell's critically acclaimed book WHITEWASHED ADOBE: THE RISE OF LOS ANGELES AND THE REMAKING OF ITS MEXICAN PAST.
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Photographic & Postcards Images Acknowledgements: • The Huntington Library, San Marino, California • La Plaza History Society & Archive, Los Angeles, California • Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley • California History Room, California State Library, Sacramento • Seaver Center for Western History Research, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles • Collection of William Deverell, Pasadena, California • Archivo Práxedis, Los Angeles, California. All rights reserved by the copyright holders. No reproduction without permission.
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LA’s Oasis for African Americans – Val Verde
For those amongst Los Angeles’ seniors who are of a racial minority background, the memories of Los Angeles as a racially segregated city are still fresh and painfully raw. Even as late as the early 1980s, Black Angelenos could not buy or rent homes in many areas of the city and surrounding suburbs. But even restaurants, . . . → Read More: LA’s Oasis for African Americans – Val Verde