Jul 26, 2016
They always trying to tell us what to do and how to say it. It was no different in Huntington Park.
Source: Los Angeles Times, November 29, 1984 (ProQuest Historical Newspaper Database).
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They always trying to tell us what to do and how to say it. It was no different in Huntington Park.
Source: Los Angeles Times, November 29, 1984 (ProQuest Historical Newspaper Database).
SELA's got a great history in activism and commUNITY power. Here you see demonstrators in 1996 hold up signs to protest Proposition 187 and other immigration policies, outside City Hall in Huntington Park where Gov. Pete Wilson was speaking.
Source: The Sacramento Bee
This is a clipping from the Los Angeles Sentinel, an African American newspaper founded in 1934 by Col. Leon H. Washington. Look at the violent response this man had to an African American family moving into the neighborhood in Lynwood. Documenting #SELAhistory also means discussing racism in the Southeast. We must talk about this, as racism is not a thing of the past.
Source: Los Angeles Sentinel, August 17, 1972 (ProQuest Historical Newspaper Database)
This picture accompanied the story of 25 tenants at the Bell Gardens apartment building, located at 5531 Gotham St, who refused to pay rent in protest of the terrible conditions of their building and a lack of response by the landlords.
Source: Los Angeles Times, September 20, 1984 (ProQuest Historical Newspaper Database)