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The Los Angeles Times called it "the greatest picture ever made and the greatest drama ever filmed". [111] Mary Pickford said: "Birth of a Nation was the first picture that really made people take the motion picture industry seriously". [112]
Added to NRHP. March 4, 1975. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is the largest natural and historical museum in the western United States. [ 3 ] Its collections include nearly 35 million specimens and artifacts and cover 4.5 billion years of history.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [a] is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz. [4][5][6] Over the ...
In 1970, there were 763,000 African Americans in Los Angeles. [20] They were the second largest minority group after the then estimated 815,000 Mexican Americans. Los Angeles had the west coast's largest black population. Between 1975 and 1980, 96,833 blacks moved to Los Angeles while 73,316 blacks left Los Angeles.
The California African American Museum ( CAAM) is a museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, United States. The museum focuses on enrichment and education on the cultural heritage and history of African Americans with a focus on California and western United States. Admission is free to all visitors.
The Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), informally named the "Olympics of the Mind," is a youth program of the NAACP that is "designed to recruit, stimulate, improve and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African American high school students." [1] The year-long program recognizes and ...
H. Claude Hudson. H. Claude Hudson (1886–1989) was a prominent American businessman and advocate for civil rights, best known for helping to found the Broadway Federal Savings and Loan Association (now Broadway Federal Bank) in Los Angeles. In 1931, he was the first African-American graduate of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
The Brockman Building is a 12-story Classical and Romanesque Revival building located in Downtown Los Angeles. Built in 1912, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. It is currently home to an 80 unit condo complex on the top 11 floors, and the restaurant Bottega Louie sits on the 1st floor.