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Bookmark or Share- The Battle Over Chavez Ravine : NPRIn the early 1950s, the city decided that Chavez Ravine was the perfect site to build public housing. So the residents were forced to sell their homes under the city's use of eminent domain....
- Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story | Documentary - PBSChavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story tells the story of how this Mexican American community was destroyed by greed, political hypocrisy, and good intentions gone awry. During the early 1950s, the...
- The Ugly, Violent Clearing Of Chavez Ravine Before It Was Home To The ...On Friday, May 9, 1959, bulldozers and sheriff's deputies showed up to forcibly evict the last few families in Chavez Ravine. Residents of the area called it Black Friday. This City of Los...
- Battle of the Chavez Ravine - ArcGIS StoryMapsThe Chavez Ravine is a shallow canyon located on a large promontory of hills north of downtown Los Angeles. Until the 1950s the Ravine was home to a vibrant, close-knit community of Mexican-American immigrants and working-class individuals. The community comprised of approximately 1,100 families.
- How Bleacher Seats Demolished a Barrio | American Experience | PBSResidents of Chavez Ravine were notified that they had to sell their homes to make way for the planned Elysian Park Heights public housing development. Some refused to leave, but many saw no ...
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