South Los Angeles, also known as South Central Los Angeles or simply South Central, is a region in southwestern
Los Angeles County
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, lying mostly within the city limits of
Los Angeles
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, south of
downtown
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.
It is "defined on Los Angeles city maps as a 16-square-mile rectangle with two prongs at the south end.” In 2003, the Los Angeles City Council renamed this area "South Los Angeles".
The name South Los Angeles can also refer to a larger 51-square mile region that includes areas within the city limits of
Los Angeles
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as well as five
unincorporated area
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s in the southern portion of the
County of Los Angeles
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.
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Mapping L.A. website of the ''Los Angeles Times''
Geography
City of Los Angeles
The City of Los Angeles delineates the South Los Angeles Community Plan area as an area of 15.5 square miles.
Adjacent communities include West Adams, Baldwin Hills, and Leimert Park to the west, and Southeast Los Angeles (the 26-neighborhood area east of the Harbor Freeway) on the east.
Los Angeles Times Mapping Project
According to the ''
Los Angeles Times Mapping Project'', the South Los Angeles region comprises 51 square miles, consisting of 25
neighborhoods within the
City of Los Angeles
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as well as three
unincorporated Unincorporated may refer to:
* Unincorporated area, land not governed by a local municipality
* Unincorporated entity, a type of organization
* Unincorporated territories of the United States, territories under U.S. jurisdiction, to which Congress ...
neighborhoods in the County of Los Angeles.
Google Maps
Google Maps delineates a similar area to the ''
Los Angeles Times Mapping Project'' with notable differences on the western border. On the northwest, it omits a section of Los Angeles west of La Brea Avenue. On the southwest, it includes a section of the
City of Inglewood north of Century Boulevard.
Districts and neighborhoods
According to the
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survey of the ''Los Angeles Times'', the South Los Angeles region consists of the following neighborhoods:
City of Los Angeles
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Adams-Normandie
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Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw
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Broadway-Manchester
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Central-Alameda
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Chesterfield Square
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Exposition Park
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Florence
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Gramercy Park
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Green Meadows
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Harvard Park
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Historic South Central
Historic South Central Los Angeles is a 2.25-square-mile neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, within the South Los Angeles region. It is the site of the Bob Hope Patriotic Hall.
From the late 1800s to early 1910s, African Americans began re ...
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Hyde Park
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Jefferson Park
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Leimert Park
Leimert Park (; ) is a neighborhood in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California.
Developed in the 1920s as a mainly residential community, it features Spanish Colonial Revival homes and tree-lined streets. The Life Magazine/Le ...
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Manchester Square
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Nevin
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South Park
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*
University Park
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Vermont Knolls
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Vermont Square
Vermont Square is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, within the South Los Angeles region. The Vermont Square Branch library, a designated Historic–Cultural Monument, is located in the community.
Geography
The name "Vermont Square" w ...
*
Vermont Vista
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Vermont-Slauson
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Watts
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Watts may also refer to:
People
* Watts (surname), list of people with the surname Watts Fictional characters
*Watts, main character in the film '' Some Kind of Wonderful''
* Watts family, six cha ...
*
West Adams
West Adams is a historic neighborhood in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California. The area is known for its large number of historic buildings, structures and notable houses and mansions throughout Los Angeles. It is a youthfu ...
Unincorporated County of Los Angeles Neighborhoods
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Athens
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*
Florence-Firestone
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Westmont
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Willowbrook
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View Park-Windsor Hills
History
Pre-1948
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In 1880, the
University of Southern California
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, and in 1920, the Doheny Campus of
Mount St. Mary's University
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, were founded in South Los Angeles. The
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort to assassinate Emperor Hir ...
and
1984 Olympic Games took place near the
USC
USC most often refers to:
* University of South Carolina, a public research university
** University of South Carolina System, the main university and its satellite campuses
** South Carolina Gamecocks, the school athletic program
* University of ...
campus at neighboring
Exposition Park, where the
Los Angeles Coliseum
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is located.
Until the 1920s, the South Los Angeles neighborhood of West Adams was one of the most desirable areas of the City. As the wealthy were building stately
mansions in
West Adams
West Adams is a historic neighborhood in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California. The area is known for its large number of historic buildings, structures and notable houses and mansions throughout Los Angeles. It is a youthfu ...
and
Jefferson Park, the
White
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working class was establishing itself in
Crenshaw and
Hyde Park. Affluent blacks gradually moved into West Adams and Jefferson Park.
[Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramon (eds.). ''Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities''. New York: New York University. .] As construction along the Wilshire Boulevard corridor gradually increased in the 1920s, the development of the city was drawn west of downtown and away from South Los Angeles.
In the eastern side of South Los Angeles (which the city calls the "Southeastern CPA") roughly east of the Harbor Freeway, the area grew southward in the late 1800s along the ever longer streetcar routes. Areas north of Slauson Boulevard were mostly built out by the late 1910s, while south of Slauson land was mostly undeveloped, much used by Chinese and Japanese Americans growing produce. In 1903, the farmers were bought out and Ascot Park racetrack was built, which turned into a "den of gambling and drinking". In the late 1910s the park was razed and freed up land for quick build-up of residential and industrial buildings in the 1920s.
[
"By 1940, approximately 70 percent of the black population of Los Angeles was confined to the Central Avenue corridor"; the area of modest bungalows and low-rise commercial buildings along Central Avenue emerged as the heart of the black community in southern California.] Originally, the city's black community was concentrated around what is now Little Tokyo, but began moving south after 1900. It had one of the first jazz
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scenes in the western U.S., with trombonist Kid Ory
Edward "Kid" Ory (December 25, 1886 – January 23, 1973) was an American jazz composer, trombonist and bandleader. One of the early users of the glissando technique, he helped establish it as a central element of New Orleans jazz.
He was ...
a prominent resident. Under racially restrictive covenants, blacks were allowed to own property only within the "Slauson Box" (the area bounded by Main, Slauson, Alameda, and Washington) and in Watts, as well as in small enclaves elsewhere in the city. The working- and middle-class blacks who poured into Los Angeles during the Great Depression
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and in search of jobs during World War II
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found themselves penned into what was becoming a severely overcrowded neighborhood. During the war, blacks faced such dire housing shortages that the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles built the virtually all-black and Latino Pueblo Del Rio project, designed by Richard Neutra
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H ...
.
During this time, African Americans
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remained a minority alongside whites, Asians, and Hispanics; but by the 1930s those groups moved out of the area, African Americans continued to move in, and eastern South LA became majority black. Whites
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Description of populations as ...
in previously established communities south of Slauson, east of Alameda and west of San Pedro streets persecuted blacks moving beyond established "lines", and thus blacks became effectively restricted to the area in between.[
]
1948–1960s
When the Supreme Court
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banned the legal enforcement of race-oriented restrictive covenant
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s in 1948's '' Shelley v. Kraemer'', blacks began to move into areas outside the increasingly overcrowded Slauson-Alameda-Washington-Main settlement area. For a time in the early 1950s, southern Los Angeles became the site of significant racial violence, with whites bombing, firing into, and burning crosses on the lawns of homes purchased by black families south of Slauson. In an escalation of behavior that began in the 1920s, white gang
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s in nearby cities such as South Gate and Huntington Park routinely accosted blacks who traveled through white areas. The black mutual protection clubs that formed in response to these assaults became the basis of the region's street gang
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s.[Dunn, William. 2007 ''The Gangs of Los Angeles''. ]
As in most urban areas, 1950s freeway
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construction radically altered the geography of southern Los Angeles. Freeway routes tended to reinforce traditional segregation lines.[John Buntin (2009). ''L.A. Noir''. .]
1970s–early 2000s
Beginning in the 1970s, the rapid decline of the area's manufacturing base resulted in a loss of the jobs that had allowed skilled union workers to enjoy a middle-class lifestyle. Downtown Los Angeles' service sector, which had long been dominated by unionized African Americans earning relatively fair wages, replaced most black workers with newly arrived Mexican and Central America
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n immigrants.
Widespread unemployment, poverty
Poverty is the state of having few material possessions or little income. Poverty can have diverse and street crime
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contributed to the rise of street gang
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s in South Central, such as the Crips
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and the Bloods. The gangs became even more powerful with money coming in from drugs, especially the crack cocaine
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trade that was dominated by gangs in the 1980s.
Paul Feldman of the ''Los Angeles Times
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'' wrote in 1989:
Leaders of the black community regret the branding of a large, predominantly black sector of the city as South-Central, saying it amounts to a subtle form of racial stereotyping.
He added that they believed such "distinctive neighborhoods" as Leimert Park
Leimert Park (; ) is a neighborhood in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California.
Developed in the 1920s as a mainly residential community, it features Spanish Colonial Revival homes and tree-lined streets. The Life Magazine/Le ...
, Lafayette Square and the Crenshaw District
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were "well-removed" from South Central.[
]
2000s–2010s
By the early 2010s, the crime rate of South Los Angeles had declined significantly. Redevelopment, improved police patrol, community-based peace programs, gang intervention work, and youth development organizations lowered the murder and crime rates to levels that had not been seen since the 1940s and 1950s. Nevertheless, South Los Angeles was still known for its gangs at the time. After leading the nation in homicides again in 2002, the City Council of Los Angeles voted to change the name ''South Central Los Angeles'' to ''South Los Angeles'' on all city documents in 2003, a move supporters said would "help erase a stigma that has dogged the southern part of the city."
On August 11, 2014, just two days after the shooting of Michael Brown
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Brown was accompanied by his 22-year-old male friend Dorian Johnson, who later stated that Brow ...
in Ferguson, Missouri, a resident of South L.A., Ezell Ford, described as "a mentally ill 25-year-old man," was fatally shot by two Los Angeles police officers (see Shooting of Ezell Ford). Since then, a number of protests focused on events in Ferguson have taken place in South Los Angeles.
After the 2008 economic recession, housing prices in South Los Angeles recovered significantly, and by 2018, many had come to see South Los Angeles as a prime target for gentrification amid rising real estate values. Residents and activists are against market-rate housing as they have concerns that these projects will encourage landlords to sell, redevelop their properties or jack up rents. Under California law, cities can't reject residential projects based on these criticisms if the project complies with applicable planning and zoning rules. The construction of the K Line light rail through the neighborhood has stimulated the building of denser multistory projects, especially around the new stations. The NFL Stadium in Inglewood Inglewood may refer to:
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*Inglewood, Queensland
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also encourages gentrification according to activists.
Real estate values in South Los Angeles were further bolstered by news that Los Angeles will host the 2028 Olympics
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, with many of the games to be hosted on or near the USC campus.
Demographics
By the end of the 1980s, South Los Angeles had an increasing number of Hispanics and Latinos, mostly in the northeastern section of the region.
According to scholars, "Between 1970 and 1990 the South LA area went from 80% African American and 9% Latino to 50.3% African American and 44% Latino." This massive and rapid residential demographic change occurred as resources in the area were shrinking due to global economic restructuring described above and due to the federal government's decrease in funding of urban anti-poverty and jobs programs, and other vital social services like healthcare. The socio-economic context described here increased the perception and the reality of competition amongst Asians, African Americans, and Latinos in South LA. The results from the 2000 census which show continuing demographic change coupled with recent economic trends indicating a deterioration of conditions in South LA suggest that such competition will not soon ease."[Grant, et al. (1996), "African Americans"]
In the 2014 census, the area of South Los Angeles had a population of 271,040. 50.0% of the residents were Hispanic or Latino, 39.7% were African American.
Many African Americans from South Los Angeles have moved to Palmdale and Lancaster in the Antelope Valley
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.
South Los Angeles has received immigrants from Mexico
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and Central America
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.
Education
South Los Angeles is home to the University of Southern California
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, a private
Private or privates may refer to:
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* " In Private", by Dusty Springfield from the 1990 album ''Reputation''
* Private (band), a Denmark-based band
* "Private" (Ryōko Hirosue song), from the 1999 album ''Private'', written and also recorde ...
research
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university
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in the University Park neighborhood. It is California's oldest private research university.
Public schools
Almost all of the South Los Angeles Area is served by the Los Angeles Unified School District
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. There are some schools not within the LAUSD
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that also serve the South Los Angeles Area, such as independent private schools or charter schools.
Los Angeles Unified School District
The following are some of the schools under the LAUSD
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which fall within the boundaries of the South Los Angeles region.
LAUSD Elementary Schools
* Coliseum Street Elementary
* Graham Elementary
* Grape Street Elementary
* Manchester Avenue Elementary
* Russell Elementary
* Foshay Learning Center
* 20th Street Elementary
* 28th Street Elementary
* 68th Street Elementary
* 75th Street Elementary
* 107th Street Elementary
* 109th Street Elementary
* 112th Street Elementary
* 116th Street Elementary
*118th Street Elementary
*Hooper Ave Elementary
LAUSD Middle Schools
* Audubon Middle School
* Carver Middle School
* Charles Drew Middle School
* Clinton Middle School
* Edwin Markham Middle School
* John Adams Middle School
* Mary McLeod Bethune Middle School
* Samuel Gompers Middle School
* Thomas Edison Middle School
* Los Angeles Academy Middle School
* Foshay Learning Center
LAUSD High Schools
*Crenshaw High School
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The school first opened in 1968 and currently enrolls aro ...
* Susan Miller Dorsey High School
* Locke High School
* John C Fremont High School
* Thomas Jefferson High School
*David Starr Jordan High School
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* Diego Rivera Learning Complex
* King-Drew Senior High Medicine and Science Magnet
* Mervyn M Dymally Senior High
* Nathaniel Narbonne Senior High
* Santee Education Complex High School
* Foshay Learning Center
* Orthopaedic Hospital Medical Magnet High School
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Community Colleges
* Los Angeles Southwest College, opened in 1967
* Los Angeles Trade Tech College
Universities
*University of Southern California
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* Mount St. Mary's University (Los Angeles)
Landmarks
* Banc of California Stadium
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* California African American Museum
The California African American Museum (CAAM) is a museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, United States. The museum focuses on enrichment and education on the cultural heritage and history of African Americans with a focus o ...
* California Science Center
* Central Avenue
* Clark Library
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* Coca-Cola Building
* Dunbar Hotel
The Dunbar Hotel, originally known as the Hotel Somerville, was the focal point of the Central Avenue African-American community in Los Angeles, California, during the 1930s and 1940s. Built in 1928 by John Alexander Somerville, it was known for ...
* Exposition Park
* Fire Station No. 30
* Leimert Park
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Developed in the 1920s as a mainly residential community, it features Spanish Colonial Revival homes and tree-lined streets. The Life Magazine/Le ...
* Lincoln Theater
* Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
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* Los Angeles Sports Arena (demolished)
* Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (under construction)
* King/Drew Medical Center
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* Second Baptist Church
* 28th Street YMCA
* University of Southern California
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* Watts Towers
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Notable people
Music and entertainment
A-K
* Ahmad Jones
* Barry White
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* Brownside
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* Blxst
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* Charles Mingus
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* Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
* CJ Mac
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Music career
He released his debut EP, ''Color Me Funky'', independently in 1991, under the name "CJ Mack." The album is out of print, and extremely ra ...
* Coolio
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* Cozz
* Da Lench Mob
* Dom Kennedy
* Dr. Dre
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* Eric Dolphy
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* Glasses Malone
* Hampton Hawes
* Ice Cube
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* Issa Rae
Jo-Issa Rae Diop (born January 12, 1985), credited professionally as Issa Rae, is an American actress, writer, producer, and comedian. Rae first garnered attention for her work on the YouTube web series ''Awkward Black Girl''. Since 2011, Rae h ...
* Jay Rock
Johnny Reed McKinzie Jr. (born March 31, 1983), better known by his stage name Jay Rock, is an American rapper, singer and songwriter from Los Angeles. He signed to indie label Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE), in 2005. Under TDE, Rock secured a rec ...
* Jhené Aiko
Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo (; born March 16, 1988) is an American singer who embarked on her music career contributing vocals and appearing in several music videos for R&B group B2K. In an effort to promote Aiko and cultivate a following for he ...
* John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading f ...
, musician
* Johnny "J"
Johnny Lee Jackson (August 28, 1969 – October 3, 2008) was a Mexican-American multi-platinum songwriter, music producer and rapper best known for his early career with Death Row Records, and for his work with 2Pac on ''Me Against the Wor ...
* Kam
* K-Dee
Darrell L. Johnson, also known as K-Dee, formerly Kid Disaster and D-Rock-D, (born May 24, 1969), is an American rapper most known for his album '' Ass, Gas, or Cash (No One Rides for Free)''.
His first two singles were released under the nam ...
* Kausion
Kausion was an American rap group composed of Cel, Gonzoe, and Kaydo that was signed to Ice Cube's Lench Mob Records in 1995. They released their debut album, ''South Central Los Skanless'', on October 10, 1995. The album peaked at number 37 on t ...
* Keb' Mo'
Kevin Roosevelt Moore (born October 3, 1951), known as Keb' Mo', is an American blues musician and five-time Grammy Award winner. He is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter, living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been described as "a living link ...
* Kevin McCall
Kevin Lamar McCall Jr. (born July 25, 1985) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his association with fellow singer Chris Brown. McCall signed to Brown in a joint venture with RCA Records in 2012. He was fe ...
* Kurupt
Ricardo Emmanuel Brown (born November 23, 1972), better known by his stage name Kurupt, is an American rapper and record producer who aided gangsta rap's rise via 1990s verses helping set lasting trends. He is one half of the rap duo Tha Dogg Po ...
* Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth (born June 17, 1987) is an American rapper and songwriter. Known for his Progressive rap, progressive musical styles and Social consciousness, socially conscious songwriting, he is often considered one of the most infl ...
L-Z
* L.V.
* Meghan Markle
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (; born Rachel Meghan Markle; August 4, 1981) is an American member of the British royal family and former actress. She is the wife of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, the younger son of King Charles III.
Meghan was ...
* Montell Jordan
Montell Du'Sean Barnett Jordan (born December 3, 1968) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Best known for his 1995 single "This Is How We Do It", Jordan was the primary male solo artist on Def Jam's Def Soul imprint until le ...
* Murs
Murs may refer to:
People
* Marc Athanase Parfait Œillet des Murs (1804-1878), French ornithologist
* Olly Murs (born 1984), English singer-songwriter
* Murs (rapper) (born 1978), American rapper
Places
* Murs, Indre, France
* Murs, Vaucluse, ...
* Nipsey Hussle
Airmiess Joseph Asghedom (August 15, 1985 – March 31, 2019), known professionally as Nipsey Hussle (often stylized as Nipsey Hu$$le), was an American rapper, entrepreneur, and activist. Emerging from the West Coast hip hop scene in the mid- ...
* O.F.T.B.
* Patrice Rushen
Patrice Louise Rushen (born September 30, 1954) is an American jazz pianist and R&B singer. She is also a composer, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and music director.
Her 1982 single "Forget Me Nots" received a Grammy Awar ...
* Ras Kass
John R. Austin II (born September 26, 1973), better known by his stage name Ras Kass, is an American rapper. He is a member of the hip hop Supergroup (music), supergroup The HRSMN, along with Canibus, Killah Priest, and Kurupt in 2014. He is als ...
* Robin Russell, drummer, member of New Birth/Nite-Liters (band)
* Schoolboy Q
Quincy Matthew Hanley (born October 26, 1986), better known by his stage name Schoolboy Q (stylized as ScHoolboy Q), is an American rapper. In 2009, Hanley signed to Carson-based independent record label Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) and in late ...
* Scott Shaw
Scott Shaw (born 23 September 1958 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author, martial artist, and filmmaker.
Career
Scott Shaw is an advanced martial artist. He has written a number of books on the martial arts. Shaw has written a numb ...
* Shawn Fonteno
* Sir Jinx
Anthony Wheaton, professionally known by his stage name Sir Jinx, is an American hip hop producer and rapper from Los Angeles. He is a cousin of multi-platinum producer Dr. Dre. He began his career as a member of the C.I.A. in the mid-80s with ...
* Skee-Lo
Antoine Roundtree (born March 27, 1975), better known by his stage name Skee-Lo, is an American rapper. He is best known for his 1995 song " I Wish", which became a hit in several countries and reached No. 13 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.
His fi ...
* South Central Cartel
South Central Cartel is an American West Coast hip hop/ gangsta rap group based in Los Angeles, California.
Discography Studio albums
Collaboration albums
Compilation albums
*''Greatest Hits'' (2003)
*''The Greatest Hits Vol. 2'' (2006)
*' ...
* Spider Loc
Curtis Williams (born January 19, 1976), more commonly known as Spider Loc, is an American rapper and actor. He was formerly signed to Interscope Records and 50 Cent's G-Unit Records.
Biography
Spider Loc was discovered by Suge Knight and ...
* Tiffany Haddish
Tiffany Sara Cornilia Haddish (born December 3, 1979) is an American stand-up comedian and actress. After guest-starring on several television series and lead role on a cable drama, Haddish gained prominence for her role as Nekeisha Williams on ...
* Tone Lōc
Anthony Terrell Smith (born March 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Tone Lōc (), is an American rapper, actor, and producer. He is known for his raspy voice, his hit songs " Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina", for which he was nomin ...
* Tyrese Gibson
Tyrese Darnell Gibson (born December 30, 1978) is an American actor and singer. He released his self-titled debut album in 1998, which featured the single " Sweet Lady", peaking at number twelve on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100. His second ...
* WC
* Young Maylay
Christopher Bellard (born June 17, 1979), also known by his stage name Young Maylay, is an American rapper, record producer and actor based in Los Angeles, California. He is best known for his portrayal of Carl "CJ" Johnson, the main character ...
* Etta James
* Ty Dolla $ign
Tyrone William Griffin Jr. (born April 13, 1982), known professionally as Ty Dolla Sign (stylized as Ty Dolla $ign or Ty$), is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. He first gained major recognition in 2010 for his feature on Ameri ...
* Terrace Martin
Terrace Jamahl Martin (born December 28, 1978) is an American musician, rapper, singer, and record producer. He is perhaps best known for producing records for several prominent artists in the music industry, including Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dog ...
Sports and athletes
* Andre Miller
Andre Lloyd Miller (born March 19, 1976) is an American former professional basketball player and the current head coach for the Grand Rapids Gold. Miller has played professional basketball for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Los Angeles Clippers, Phil ...
* Baron Davis
Baron Walter Louis Davis (born April 13, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player who is a studio analyst for the '' NBA on TNT''. He was a two-time NBA All-Star, made the All-NBA Third Team in 2004, and twice led the NBA in ...
* Darryl Strawberry
Darryl Eugene Strawberry (born March 12, 1962) is an American former professional baseball right fielder and author who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Throughout his career, Strawberry was one of the most feared sluggers in th ...
* Eddie Murray
Eddie Clarence Murray (born February 24, 1956), nicknamed "Steady Eddie," is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman, designated hitter, and coach. Spending most of his MLB career with the Baltimore Orioles, he ranks fourth ...
* Eric Davis
* Florence Griffith-Joyner
Florence Delorez Griffith Joyner (born Florence Delorez Griffith; December 21, 1959 – September 21, 1998), also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete. She set world records in 1988 for the 100 m and 200 m. During the late 1 ...
* Ozzie Smith
Osborne Earl Smith (born December 26, 1954) is an American former professional baseball player. Nicknamed "the Wizard of Oz", Smith played shortstop for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals in Major League Baseball, winning the National ...
* Russell Westbrook
Russell Westbrook III (born November 12, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A member of the NBA 75th Anniversary Team, he is a nine-time NBA All-Star and ...
* Steve Smith Sr.
Stevonne Latrall Smith Sr. (born May 12, 1979) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for sixteen seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Carolina Panthers, also playing for the Ba ...
* Trayvon Robinson
Trayvon Andrew Dwayne Robinson (born September 1, 1987) is an American professional baseball left fielder for the Lancaster Barnstormers of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Ma ...
* Willie Mack
Willie McClinton Jr. (born January 5, 1987) is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Willie Mack, currently appearing in Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide. He is best known for his tenure with Impact Wrestling, where he is a ...
* DeSean Jackson
DeSean William Jackson (born December 1, 1986) is an American football wide receiver for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the California Golden Bears, where he was recognized as a con ...
* Vontaze Burfict
Vontaze DeLeon Burfict Jr. ( ; born September 24, 1990) is a former American football linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons, primarily with the Cincinnati Bengals. A first-team All-American at Arizona St ...
Politicians
A-K
* Karen Bass
Karen Ruth Bass (; born October 3, 1953) is an American politician, social worker and former physician assistant who is serving as the 43rd mayor of Los Angeles since 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, Bass had previously served in the U.S ...
, Mayor of Los Angeles 2022-present, State Assembly 2004–2010, U.S. House of Representatives, 2011–2022
* Tom Bradley (South Central, Los Angeles City Council, 1963–73; Mayor of the City of Los Angeles, 1973–93
* Yvonne Brathwaite Burke
Yvonne Pearl Burke (née Watson, later Brathwaite; born October 5, 1932) is an American politician and lawyer from California. She was the first African-American woman to represent the West Coast in Congress. She served in the U.S. Congress from ...
, State Assembly, 1967–73; U.S. House of Representatives, 1973–79; Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, 1979–80 and 1992–2008
* Julian C. Dixon, State Assembly, 1973–78; U.S. House of Representatives, 1979–2000
* Mervyn M. Dymally
Mervyn Malcolm Dymally (May 12, 1926 – October 7, 2012) was an American politician from California. He served in the California State Assembly (1963–66) and the California State Senate (1967–75) as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of Califor ...
, State Assembly, 1962–68 and 2002–08; California State Senate, 1969–74; Lieutenant Governor of California, 1975–79; U.S. House of Representatives, 1981–93
* Robert C. Farrell
Robert C. Farrell (born October 1, 1936) is a politician who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1974 until 1991. Previously, he was a journalist and newspaper publisher.
Biography
Farrell was born in Natchez, Mississippi, on Octob ...
(born 1936), journalist and member of the Los Angeles City Council, 1974–1991, prepared report on unemployment in Watts
* Augustus Hawkins
Augustus Freeman Hawkins (August 31, 1907 – November 10, 2007) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served in the California State Assembly from 1935 to 1963 and the U.S. House Of Representatives from 1963 to 1991. Over the ...
, State Assembly, 1932–62; U.S. House of Representatives, 1962–1991
* Marqueece Harris-Dawson
Marqueece Harris-Dawson (born November 7, 1970) is an American politician, who currently represents the 8th district of the Los Angeles City Council since 2015.
Early life and education
Harris-Dawson was born and raised in South Central Los An ...
City Council, 2015–present)
* Horace Hiller
Horace Hiller (18441898) was a businessman in Los Angeles, California, during the 19th century and served on the city's governing body, the Common Council. He died after he was struck by a falling window frame as he walked beneath construction wor ...
(1844–1898), member of the Los Angeles Common Council
* Nate Holden
Nathaniel N. "Nate" Holden (born June 19, 1929) is a Los Angeles County politician who served four years in the California State Senate and 16 years on the Los Angeles City Council.
Biography
Upbringing, education and family
Holden was born in ...
, State Senator, 1974–78; Los Angeles City Council, 1987–2002
L-Z
* Gilbert Lindsey, Los Angeles City Council, 1962–91
* James G. McAllister, president of the South Los Angeles Property Owners' Protective League and City Council member
* Billy G. Mills
Billy G. Mills (born 1929) is a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge and a former Los Angeles City Council member, serving from 1963 to 1974. He was one of the first three African-Americans elected to the council.
Biography
Mills was born ...
, Los Angeles City Council, 1963–1974; Los Angeles Superior Court, 1974–??
* Holly Mitchell
Holly J. Mitchell (born September 7, 1964) is an American politician currently serving as a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
A Democrat, Mitchell served as a State Senator for California's 30th senate district from 2013 ...
, State Assembly, 2010–present
* Kevin Murray, State Assembly, 1994–98; State Senate, 1998–2006
* Jan Perry
Jan C. Perry (born June 8, 1955) is an American politician from California. A member of the Democratic Party, she served on the Los Angeles City Council.
Career
Perry was a member of the ninth district of the Los Angeles City Council from 2001 t ...
, Los Angeles City Council, 2002–present
* Curren Price, City Council, 1993–97 and 2001–2006; State Assembly, 2006–2009; State Senate, 2009–present
* Mark Ridley-Thomas, Los Angeles City Council, 1991–2002; State Assembly; 2002–06; State Senate 2006–2008; Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, 2008–present
* Frederick Madison Roberts, State Assembly, 1918–32
* Rita Walters
Rita Dolores Walters (née White; August 14, 1930 – February 17, 2020) was an American politician.
Political career
Walters served on the Board of Library Commissioners for the Los Angeles Public Library. Prior to this position, she served on t ...
, Los Angeles Unified School District Board, 1979–91; Los Angeles City Council, 1991–2001
* Maxine Waters
Maxine Moore Waters (née Carr; born August 15, 1938) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 1991. The district, numbered as the 29th district from 1991 to 1993 and as the 35th district from 1993 to 2013, inc ...
, State Assembly, 1976–1991; U.S. House of Representatives, 1991–present
* Diane Watson
Diane Edith Watson (born November 12, 1933) is a former American politician who served as US Representative for , serving from 2003 until 2011, after first being elected in the 32nd District in a 2001 special election. She is a member of the Dem ...
, Los Angeles Unified School District Board, 1975–73; State Senate, 1978–98; United States Ambassador to Micronesia, 1999–2000; U.S. House of Representatives, 2001–2011
* Herb Wesson
Herman J. "Herb" Wesson Jr. (born November 11, 1951) is an American politician who served as a City council, councilmember representing the Los Angeles City Council District 10, 10th District for three terms between July 1, 2005 and December 14, ...
, State Assembly, 1998–2004; Los Angeles City Council, 2005–present)
* Roderick Wright, State Assembly, 1996–2002; State Senate, 2008–present)
Artists, filmmakers and writers
* Ron Finley Ron is a shortening of the name Ronald.
Ron or RON may also refer to:
Arts and media
* Big Ron (''EastEnders''), a TV character
* Ron (''King of Fighters''), a video game character
*Ron Douglas, the protagonist in '' Lucky Stiff'' played by Joe ...
(South LA)
* Mark Bradford
Mark Bradford (born November 20, 1961) is an American visual artist. Born in Los Angeles, Bradford studied at the California Institute of the Arts. Recognized for his collaged painting works, which have been shown internationally, his practice al ...
(Leimert Park)
* Catherine Opie
Catherine Sue Opie (born 1961) is an American fine-art photographer and educator. She lives and works in Los Angeles, as a professor of photography at University of California at Los Angeles.
Opie studies the connections between mainstream and i ...
(South LA)
* David Ayer
David Ayer (born January 18 , 1968) is an American filmmaker known for making crime films that are set in Los Angeles and deal with gangs and police corruption. His screenplays include ''Training Day'' (2001), ''The Fast and the Furious'' (2001 ...
(South LA)
* Charles Burnett (Watts)
* Wanda Coleman (Watts)
* John Singleton
John Daniel Singleton (January 6, 1968 April 28, 2019) was an American director, screenwriter, and producer. He made his feature film debut writing and directing ''Boyz n the Hood'' (1991), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for B ...
(South L.A.)
* Ava DuVernay
Ava Marie DuVernay (; born August 24, 1972) is an American filmmaker, television producer and former film publicist. She is a recipient of a Primetime Emmy Award, a NAACP Image Award, a BAFTA Film Award and a BAFTA TV Award, as well as a nominee ...
(South L.A.)
* Issa Rae
Jo-Issa Rae Diop (born January 12, 1985), credited professionally as Issa Rae, is an American actress, writer, producer, and comedian. Rae first garnered attention for her work on the YouTube web series ''Awkward Black Girl''. Since 2011, Rae h ...
(South L.A.)
* Kehinde Wiley
Kehinde Wiley (born February 28, 1977) he returned to Nigeria, leaving Freddie to raise the couple's six children. 3/sup> Wiley has said that his family survived on welfare checks and the limited income earned by his mother's 'thrift store' – ...
(South L.A.)
Education
* Rosemarie Allen (born 1950), American academic specialized in diversity, equity, and inclusion
Clergy
* Frederick K. C. Price (South Los Angeles)—founder and pastor of Crenshaw Christian Center
Government and infrastructure
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (abbreviated DHS and LADHS) operates the public hospitals and clinics in Los Angeles County, and is the United States' second largest municipal health system, after NYC Health + Hospitals.
DHS ope ...
operates the South Health Center in Watts
Watts is plural for ''watt'', the unit of power.
Watts may also refer to:
People
* Watts (surname), list of people with the surname Watts Fictional characters
*Watts, main character in the film '' Some Kind of Wonderful''
* Watts family, six cha ...
, Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world ...
, serving South Los Angeles.[South Health Center]
" Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (abbreviated DHS and LADHS) operates the public hospitals and clinics in Los Angeles County, and is the United States' second largest municipal health system, after NYC Health + Hospitals.
DHS ope ...
. Retrieved on March 18, 2010.
See also
*History of Mexican Americans in Los Angeles
Mexican Americans have lived in Los Angeles since the original Pobladores, the 44 original settlers and 4 soldiers who founded the city in 1781. People of Mexican descent make up 31.9% of Los Angeles residents, and 32% of Los Angeles County r ...
*Cholo (subculture)
A cholo or chola is a member of a Chicano and Latino subculture or lifestyle associated with a particular set of dress, behavior, and worldview which originated in Los Angeles. A veterano or veterana is an older member of the same subculture. ...
References
Notes
Further reading
* Renwick, Lucille.
COVER STORY: THE MYTH OF South-Central: More a Stereotype Than a Place, It Is Defined By Ethnicity and Negative Media Images Rather Than Street Boundaries
. ''Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the ...
''. January 3, 1993.
* Kotkin, Joel (contributing editor of Opinion section)
COMMUNITY: Latinization of South Los Angeles
(Opinion). ''Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the ...
''. May 28, 1995.
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Image of South Central residents demonstrating against crime, Los Angeles, California, 1983.
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Black Experiences of Latinization and Loss in South Los Angeles
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