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Crenshaw, or the Crenshaw District, is a neighborhood in South Los Angeles, California. [2] [3] In the post–World War II era, a Japanese American community was established in Crenshaw. African Americans started migrating to the district in the mid 1960s, and by the early 1970s were the majority. [4]
Crenshaw Boulevard is a north-south thoroughfare that runs through Crenshaw and other neighborhoods along a 23-mile (37.76 km) route in the west-central part of Los Angeles, California, United States.
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The 8th District includes the neighborhoods of Baldwin Hills, Chesterfield Square, Crenshaw, Jefferson Park, and other communities of western South Los Angeles. [1]The district overlaps California's 37th and 43rd congressional districts, California's 28th and 35th State Senate districts, as well as California's 55th, 57th, and 61st State Assembly districts.
The commercial corridor along Crenshaw Boulevard is known as "the heart of African American commerce in Los Angeles". [1] [2] Destination Crenshaw, is an open-air museum along Crenshaw Boulevard that celebrates African American history and culture.
The development was located on the west side of Crenshaw Boulevard from Coliseum Street to Santa Barbara Avenue. [2] [3] Crenshaw Manor was described as having "accessibility to an excellent neighborhood shopping district, schools, transportation and recreation". [2] The name Crenshaw Manor remained in use from the 1950s, [4] through the 1990s ...
1927 Los Angeles Times map of Leimert Park and surrounding area, including (4) proposed connection of Santa Barbara Avenue (now Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.) with Angeles Mesa Drive (now Crenshaw Boulevard) via a new 133-foot-wide Leimert Boulevard and (7) paving and widening of Angeles Mesa Drive with two roadways from Vernon south to 79th Street
Interstate 10 (I-10) is a transcontinental Interstate Highway in the United States, stretching from Santa Monica, California, to Jacksonville, Florida.The segment of I-10 in California, also known as the Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway, [4] runs east from Santa Monica through Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Palm Springs before crossing into the state of Arizona.