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Country music superstar Loretta Lynn, whose life story was portrayed in the film 'Coal Miner's Daughter,' died this week at age 90. The legacy she leaves behind includes her hit songs — and the stories she conveyed about women's rights, including the use of birth control.
Country music superstar Loretta Lynn, whose life story was portrayed in the film 'Coal Miner's Daughter,' died this week at age 90. The legacy she leaves behind includes her hit songs — and the stories she conveyed about women's rights, including the use of birth control.
L.A.'s Little Manila district (around what is now Little Tokyo) bustled in the 1920s and 1930s and was a hub for Filipinos who began migrating in large numbers to Los Angeles in the early 20th century, until it was erased by redevelopment.
When Modesta Avila placed "a heavy fence post" across a set of railroad tracks with a sign that read, "'This land belongs to me. And if the railroad wants to run here, they will have to pay me $10,000," she cemented herself in California culture as a symbol of resistance against the rich and powerful.
About 100 years ago, Los Angeles produced about 20% of the world's oil. These downtown buildings are part of the larger story of how the oil industry significantly transformed Los Angeles' built environment.
Here are 10 of Holocaust Museum LA’s most intriguing relics.
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Not much can be found in the public landscape that documents the Zoot Suit riots set off by the discovery of the body of José Gallardo Diaź near Sleepy Lagoon.
By the end of 1883, Los Angeles became the first city in America to abandon gas for street lighting, opting for electricity.
Los Angeles city officials have released a Request for Ideas to memorialize the victims of the 1871 Chinese Massacre, which took place in the old Chinatown area of downtown Los Angeles.
Indigenous land dispossession was bolstered by the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II — and vice versa.
By creating Indian boarding schools, the government converted Indigenous labor and lands into property for capitalist gain.