Black Los Angeles Contributes to the Freedom Rides
In the summer of 1961, Black people from Los Angeles and their allies volunteered to travel south and take part
Read more
Search Results for: los angeles
CORE and the Early Civil Rights Movement in Los Angeles
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was founded in the spring of 1942 in Chicago by James Farmer along with a racially diverse group
Read more
Black Los Angeles and the LAPD in the Early 1960s
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and other city officials could have prevented the Watts Rebellion in August 1965 had they addressed the concerns
Read more
We are our own Multitude: Los Angeles’ Black Panamanian Community
*This essay is republished in partnership with Boom California as part of an ongoing series on Black California. On a Saturday
Read more
The Rise of Incarceration in Los Angeles: An Interview with Kelly Lytle Hernandez
In today’s post, Erica Sterling, a PhD student in the Department of History at Harvard University, interviews Kelly Lytle Hernandez about
Read more