CRES study

Rodney King

On March 3, 1991, he was beaten by Los Angeles Police due to speeding while on drugs, when interviewed about the riots, he said “Can’t we all get along”, Awarded 3.8 Million

George Holliday

Witness to the Rodney King police brutality incident, filmed the whole thing, which sparked outrage.

Mike Davis

Led to the “Militarization of Landscape”: Fences (Chain Link fences, locks, spikes)

Summer Olympics 1984

Led to militarization of LA

Peshing Square

• Authoritarian, cameras

• Gigantic flat patio things (hot)

• No fun allowed

• “Hoboproofing”

Westin Bonaventure Suites

• Westin Bonaventure suites opened in 1976

• Originally owned by a subsidiary of Mitsubishi

• A “complete self contained world”

• Elevated above the ground on a concrete brutalist base

• Separated from the street

• Architecture of fascism

Olivera Street

• El Pueblo de los Ángeles

• Olivera Street Gas Station

• 1781: 11 Mexican families settled in el Pueblo (to grow grapes or olives)

• 1899: Vine/Wine Street changed its name to Olvera Street after Judge Augustin Olvera

• 1926: Christine Sterling (wealthy NorCal socialite) “discovered” it and saved it from city’s bulldozers

• Orientalism at work? SImilar to the French Quarter (NOLA)

Little Tokyo/Bronzeville

Arrested Japanese population, Little Tokyo (emptied in 1942) became ‘Bronzeville’ - home to an overcrowded population of Black, HISPANIC!!!, Native residents who were living wherever since there isn’t a lot of options

JUAN CROW

Laws against Mexicans in LA

The Zoot Suit Riots (June 1943)

Rationing of fabrics used to manufacture clothing popular among Latinos, African Americans and Filipino Americans

Servicemen (over 50K) filled up LA by 1942

Vigilante patrols targeted “zoot suit wearers” then any large gathering of pachucos (regardless of clothing)

June 8: LA City Council passes resolution banning wearing of zoot suits in public.

Similar to Hijab bans

Watts Uprising

• Multi-day riots in Rochester, NYC, Philly, and Chicago took place in 1964

• Response to police brutality vs. Marquette Frye (21) and his brother and Mom

• “The jungle is waiting to take over” - Ronald Reagan, elected Governor in 1966

• (1965) Police stormed Nation of Islam Mosque and shot 19 people (had killed someone there in 1962)

Excide

Battery company poisoning Hispanic communities in LA

Puvunga

Sacred Tongva site located centrally on campus of Long Beach State University, with repeated attempts to bulldoze to build strip mall

Judah P Benjamin

• Came into plantation business

• In cahoots with Jefferson Davis

• Was Number 3 in Confederacy

• Did not renounce his Jewish faith in the US senate

Liberty Place Monument

• 1874 Crescent City White League militia attempt to overturn Republican Reconstruction Gov’t

• Statue funding motivated by the Hennessy Affair (mob murder of 11 italian immigrants)

• Moved 1965 (Canal St construction), replaced 1970 with plaque by Moon Landrieu’s city hall distancing it from “beliefs of present day New Orleans”

• 1989 - Moved again (more Canal St. work0; 1993 David Duke got memorial placed but the city put it on Iberville St, buried next to Parking Garage

Queen of Voodoo

Marie Laveau