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May 4, 2021 · Hattie McDaniel, Norman Houston and dozens of other Black families fought back with their own Black homeowners association. HOUSTON: They created the organization called the West Adams Heights ...
Feb 22, 2018 · During the 1910s and ’20s, West Adams Heights saw its status as one of the premier addresses in Los Angeles decline. There was an exodus westward to new tony neighborhoods like Beverly Hills...
Despite this disgraceful history, Los Angeles was also at the forefront of the struggle to end racial covenants—a story that connects to the historic neighborhood of West Adams Heights, commonly known for many decades as Sugar Hill.
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.”
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The tree-lined boulevards of the West Adams neighborhood are studded with stately homes. "That was Marvin Gaye's place right there," says Rha Nickerson, who grew up in the area, as she points to one such two-story house on Gramercy Place. It's easy to tell from the ornate architecture of the houses, the antique street lights and the wide roads that...
As the construction that made Los Angeles "the city of freeways" ramped up in the early 1960s, white Americans continued to move to newly developed suburbs that dotted the borders of urban city centers. It had been nearly a decade since racially restrictive covenants had been lifted, so slowly, more neighborhoods were opening up to Black residents ...
Robert Johnson was just one of thousands of Black Comptonites who began streaming out of the city in the 1980s in search of more space and safer neighborhoods. The face of the once majority Black city was changing quickly as its African American residents largely moved inland to newly built exurbs. Billy Ross, now 45, spent the 1980s and early '90s...
A few months ago, DonnaLee Norrington celebrated her 60th birthday in the newly purchased Compton home she and her sister, MaryJosephine, now call their own. Norrington thought she would never own a home again after losing the condominium she and her ex-husband briefly owned before the financial crisis. She said losing that home had turned her cred...
West Adams Heights, now also known as Sugar Hill, played a major role in the Civil Rights movement in Los Angeles. In 1938 Norman Houston, president of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company, and an African American, purchased a home at 2211 South Hobart Boulevard.
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West Adams Heights-Sugar Hill, Los Angeles. 525 likes · 14 talking about this. Our association was founded in 1982 as the Sugar Hill Neighborhood Watch in historic West Adams district, just southwest...
