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| The History Of Urban Los Angeles 44 settlers founded Los Angeles in 1781. Their group included 26 people of African descent, who established the city as an outpost in Spanish-held California. Before and after the United States took control of California in 1840, people of African descent were treated as citizens. That noteworthy racial climate made Los Angeles attractive to fugitive slaves. But since jobs were scarce, African Americans like most others were mostly transient. Black population in Los Angeles would not grow substantially until the 1880’s. Nevertheless, Los Angeles’ first Black newspaper, the California Eagle, encouraged African Americans to move here for a better life. Many heard the call. Between 1870 and 1910 African Americans grew from 100 to 7,500. During this time Biddy Mason, founder of the first surviving African American church in Los Angeles, landowner and prosperous businesswoman, made her famous cross-country trek to Los Angeles. During the 1970s and 1980s, Bradley opened city employment and contracts. Housing discrimination was greatly reduced. Bradley personally pushed for the building of the multi-million dollar Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw Mall. During his 20-year administration, Bradley oversaw an unprecedented economic boom in the region. Despite noble efforts, economic prosperity in the form of manufacturing jobs fled the Black community. Much of the black middleclass, no longer constrained by housing discrimination and fed up with drug abuse and gang activity, moved to suburban communities like Long Beach, Carson, Pasadena, Moreno Valley and Riverside. |
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