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The history of African Americans in Los Angeles includes participation in the culture, education, and politics of the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. The first blacks in Los Angeles were mulattos and Afro-Mexicans who immigrated to California from Sinaloa and Sonora in northwestern Mexico.
For example, many blacks from Los Angeles have moved to desert areas such as Palmdale and Lancaster in the 1990s. The black population in Los Angeles County has been rapidly declining. [21] The black population has also declined in San Francisco. [22] African Americans have the second highest poverty rate in California, after Hispanics. [23]
Los Angeles was founded by settlers who were predominantly of African descent, and the city had 2,100 Black Americans in 1900. By 1920 this grew to approximately 15,000. In 1910, the city had the highest percentage of black home ownership in the nation, with more than 36% of the city's African-American residents owning their own homes.
We are linked through a history of Black Californian creatives, and through Evans, my understanding of the history of Black Los Angeles and its contributions to the greater L.A. have colorfully ...
Pages in category "African-American history in Los Angeles" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Danny J. Bakewell Sr., photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on Nov. 8. It was the tail end of the Great Migration when Danny J. Bakewell Sr. left New Orleans for Los Angeles in 1967.
Billie Holiday and other African American performers stayed at the Dunbar when working in LA. The Dunbar became known in the 1930s and 1940s as "the hub of Los Angeles black culture," [7] and "the heart of Saturday night Los Angeles." [10] In its heyday, it was known as "a West Coast mixture of the Waldorf-Astoria and the Cotton Club."
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)'s has chosen a theme for Black History Month every year since 1928, per their official website. According to Parry, the ...