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Feb 22, 2018 · Sensing an opportunity to establish a new foothold for the numerous middle class and affluent members of the black community, social leaders started to buy homes...
Apr 27, 2021 · Adams Heights, also called Sugar Hill, was the site of an early victory against restrictive housing covenants. The area’s large homes and lots are seen on this vintage postcard.
- Patt Morrison
- Columnist
- patt.morrison@latimes.com
Joe Williams is one of the many who knows the neighborhood that became known as "West Adams," and recalls the history of the suburb. "It went from an all white neighborhood to an all black ...
Prior to the 1940s, Black people were technically barred from living in the area (originally known as West Adams Heights) due to the presence of restrictive covenants, which permitted homes to be sold to “members of the caucasian race only.” Despite this, beginning in the 1910s as upper class whites began leaving West Adams for new ...
May 8, 2021 · So members of the West Adams Heights Improvement Association sued their Black neighbors for violating racially restrictive covenants in hopes of having them evicted — even though white...
Feb 24, 2016 · In 1938, McDaniel and other black celebrities of the time, like blues and jazz singer Ethel Waters and actress Louise Beavers, moved into the colonial mansions in the city’s West Adams Heights ...
The Houstons became the first African American family to purchase a house in Sugar Hill in 1938, at 2211 South Hobart Boulevard, in the West Adams neighborhood. The local white homeowners association, the West Adams Heights Improvement Association, voiced strong opposition to this.
