Primary Source Documents on Growing Up in South L.A.
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Excerpt from Apartheid in an American City: The Case of the
Black Community in Los Angeles, by Cynthia Hamilton, published by The
Labor Community Strategy Center (2.3 MB)
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Article from the L.A. Times on undercover officers posing
as students at South L.A. high schools, Dec. 1982 (724 KB)
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Article from the L.A. Times on the future of
rent control, March 1984 (3.3 MB)
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Tickets to Olympics events at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum in South Los Angeles (108 KB)
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Article from the L.A. Times on South L.A. residents'
fears of the impact of the Olympics on their neighborhoods, Feb. 1984 (4.4 MB)
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Article from the L.A. Times on the stereotyping of
young Black men, May 1992 (1.3 MB)
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