Sonoratown was a neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles, California. Sonoratown was home to many migrants from the northern Mexican state of Sonora in the...

Greater Los Angeles is the most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. state of California, encompassing five counties in Southern California extending...

Back Respect", Los Angeles Times, September 26, 1999, image 64 ("screen the neighborhood from the highway") "A Brief History of Sonoratown, L.A.'s Lost...

List of Chinatowns List of districts and neighborhoods of Los Angeles Sonoratown, Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871 "Worldwide Elevation Finder". Angels...

the Plaza that it came to be known as "Sonoratown". During the Gold Rush years in northern California, Los Angeles became known as the "Queen of the Cow...

see Los Angeles Plaza Historic District For the area to the south, see Historic Core Sonoratown, Los Angeles Old Chinatown, Los Angeles "Early Los Angeles...

States census found that non-Hispanic whites were becoming a minority in Los Angeles. Estimates for the 2010 United States census results find Latinos to...

of Los Angeles is rich with arts and ethnically diverse. The greater Los Angeles metro area has several notable art museums including the Los Angeles County...

of La Placita / Sonoratown dating to the 1870s and is found wholly within the original Spanish four leagues pueblo of the Los Angeles land grant. Located...

as the “crib king”. Sonoratown, Los Angeles#Prostitution Kooistra, AnneMarie. "The Enterprising Career of Tom Savage in Los Angeles' Red-Light District...

descent make up 31.9% of Los Angeles residents, and 32% of Los Angeles County residents. Nuestra Señora Reina de los Angeles Asistencia was founded in...

settlement houses List of historical settlement houses Social work Sonoratown, Los Angeles, for description of one of the houses Wade, Louise Carrol (2004)...

residents. History of Chinese Americans in Los Angeles Sonoratown, Los Angeles Victorian Downtown Los Angeles Chinese enclaves in the San Gabriel Valley...

The Great Wall of Los Angeles is a 1978 mural designed by Judith Baca and executed with the help of over 400 community youth and artists coordinated by...

beginning of the Great Depression. For example, in Los Angeles, C. P. Visel, the spokesman for Los Angeles Citizens Committee for Coordination of Unemployment...

Los Angeles's 8th City Council district is one of the fifteen districts in the Los Angeles City Council. It is currently represented by Democrat Marqueece...

Courts is a low-income housing project in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles, California. It is located on E. Olympic Blvd & S. Lorena st . Estrada...

Suit Riots were a series of riots that took place June 3–8, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, United States, involving American servicemen stationed in...

Chicano and broader Latin American culture. Lowrider car culture began in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-to-late 1940s, and grew during the post-war prosperity...

Los Four (active from 1973–1983) was a Chicano artist collective active based in Los Angeles, California. The group was instrumental in bringing the Chicano...

The "Sleepy Lagoon murder" was the name that Los Angeles newspapers used to describe the death of José Gallardo Díaz, who was discovered unconscious and...

settlement association which was tending to the welfare of the Sonoratown, Los Angeles, neighborhood, inhabited principally by Latinos. The city's Board...

largest of which was Sonoratown. Conversely, wealthy Californios lived in richer areas and moved away from the central plaza as Sonoratown expanded outward...

The East Los Angeles Walkouts or Chicano Blowouts were a series of 1968 protests by Chicano students against unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified...

Chicano boys and men in the 1940s as a symbol of rebellion, especially in Los Angeles. It spread to women who became known as pachucas and were perceived as...

particular set of dress, behavior, and worldview which originated in Los Angeles. A veterano or veterana is an older member of the same subculture. Other...

Gorras Blancas Mexican–American War Mutualista San Elizario Salt War Sonoratown Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Pre-Chicano Movement 1917 Bath riots Bisbee...

Christmas was the severe beating of seven civilians by members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on December 25, 1951. The attacks left five...

in 1968, the coalition peaked with an August 29, 1970 march in East Los Angeles that drew 30,000 demonstrators. The march was described by scholar Lorena...

Mexican Americans as part of the Annual Chicano Student Conference in Los Angeles County. Vickie Castro, Moctesuma Esparza, Jorge Licón, Rachel Ochoa,...