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| Fair Employment Act -to prohibit racial discrimination in the nationaldefense industry |
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| Criminal trial of 21 Chicano youths for the murder charges of Jose Diaz. His murder occurred in the reservoir in Southeast LA. All of the jurors were white and the case is now seen as lacking in the fundamental requirements of due process. During the trial the defendants were not allowed to sit near or communicate with their attorneys. The case is seen as the precursor to the Zoot Suit Riots. |
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| The Zoot Suit Riots were in effect of the Sleepy Lagoon Murder and it erupted in LA between white sailors and Marines stationed throughout the city and Latino youths, who were recognizable by the zoot suits they favored. It began when a group of sailors went to the local movie theater with chains and gun belts and began beating Mexican Americans. This riot was initially aimed at people wearing zoot suits but ultimately was aimed at a race. |
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| Chief William Parker was an avowed white supremacist held responsible by LA Blacks for a police reign of terror. His department was corrupt and served in the LAPD for 15 years before going to WWII. |
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| Son-in-Law of Otis, and after Otis' death, he emerged as the unquestioned leader of LA's fourth-generation Anglo power structure, the Times, and transforming it into the most successful newspaper at the time in the West. As a real estate investor, he was a partner in syndicates that owned and developed much of the San Fernando Valley. Chandler attempted to use his influence with the Los Angeles Police Department to ensure that Thad Brown was named the next chief of police. His efforts were foiled, however, when a commissioner thought to be under Chandler's control died shortly before the vote. Instead, William Parker was selected[ |
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| Harrison Gray Otis was the second publisher of the Los Angeles Times and is considered one of the "boosters" of LA. He established a militarized power structure which controlled the city for 3 generations. He wanted to sell Los Angeles to the Middle West. |
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| Southern California was a pioneer of the freeway, as a way to get around faster than using the old grid-based surface street model |
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| Homeowner's Association led to LA contracting private policing, such as home securities with signs on lawns warning of "armed response." They are a sold concept of security. |
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| The Crips and Bloods were a gang revival and rivalry in LA. Crips were formed first and were mostly made up of youth 17 years of age. Bloods were formed to compete with the Crips and they used murder to show their status. |
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| Suburbanization included separation from the metropolitan area such as commuting from there to a suburb with rows of houses uniformed houses. It is a growth of major cities and pushed by population density. It also includes increase of leisures such as Dodger Stadium and Disneyland. |
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| Prop 13 froze property taxes that 1975 rose. It allowed houses to radically appreciate in value and allowed homes to be investments, but it set up the right and left wing split. B/c of Prop 13, schools were defunded, such as schools not being able to offer AP classes, PE, etc. |
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| Prop 187 was designed to create a state-run citizenship screening system in order to prohibit illegal immigrants from using health care, public education, and other services. It was initially passed but was later found unconstitutional after it heated the topic of illegal immigration. |
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| Prop 209 amended state constitution to prohibit public institutions from considering race, sex, and ethnicity. It was opposed by affirmative action. |
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| House of Un-American Activities Committee was an investigative committee in the United States House of Representatives which was meant to look into suspected cases of subversion and disloyalty to the United States government. It is often associated with McCarthy and it made major investigations in the film industry. |
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| Communist Party of the United States of America. President Joseph McCarthy suspected thousands of Communists were infiltrating the US Gov't and the accused Communists' lives were shattered and many would found it difficult finding employment in the film and music industry. |
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| Pachucos are Mexican American youths who developed their own subculture in Southern California. They had their own styles, such as the Zoot suits, and their own dialect of Mexican Spanish. They have often been associated with the gang culture, such as Zoot Suit Riots and Sleepy Lagoon Case. |
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| Presidential order by Franklin D. Roosevelt for Japanese internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. |
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| Southern California was ground zero for Red Scare. It was the paranoia that they could easily be bombed. People began making shelters beneath their homes. Fear of nuclear war shaped American culture and at the same time more people were able to buy more than before and go to college. It also liberated women. |
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| This style of jazz avoided aggressive tempos of bebop. Helped mix ethnicities to play music during WWII. It became strongly identified with West Coast Jazz. |
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| LA walkouts had to do with Chicano Blowouts. They were a series of protests in 1968 against unequal conditions in the LA Unified School District. Students were both concerned for their education and the death toll from the Vietnam War. |
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| The Black Panther Party was a revolutionary African-American Left-Wing organization working for the self-defense of African Americans. |
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| He was a five-term mayor of LA. A significant featrure of this plan was the development and building of numerous skyscrapers in the Bunker Hill financial district. |
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Jarvis was an American businessman, lobbyist, and politician who spearheaded Proposition 13, the California property tax-cutting initiative passed in 1978 which slashed property taxes by 57% and initiated a national tax revolt.
Jarvis and his wife collected tens of thousands of signatures to enable Prop. 13 to appear on a statewide ballot, for which he garnered national attention.
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| Master Plan for Higher Education |
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| The effect of the plan was to increase overall efficiency in the higher education system, to produce greater numbers of graduates at a lower per-student cost. Open enrollment, 2 year community colleges, anyone can go, etc. |
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| a Republican Party method of winning Southern states in the latter decades of the 20th century and first decade of the 21st century by exploiting opposition the cultural upheaval of the 1960s/70s and in reaction to the changing economics of the South. |
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| Pop architect - Disney Hall on Bunker Hill and uprooted neighborhoods and privatized public space - he acquired a popular authority over regional taste that at times recalls Disney. |
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