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  2. History of Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    The Founding of Los Angeles mural at the Los Angeles Central Library. The Pobladores ("settlers") is the name given to the 22 adults and 22 children from Sonora who founded Los Angeles. Twenty were of African American or Native American descent.

  3. Ethnic groups in Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Los Angeles was founded by settlers who were predominantly of African descent, and the city had 2,100 Black Americans in 1900. By 1920 this grew to approximately 15,000. In 1910, the city had the highest percentage of black home ownership in the nation, with more than 36% of the city's African-American residents owning their own homes.

  4. Los Angeles Pobladores - Wikipedia

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    Felipe de Neve, founder of Los Angeles and 4th Governor of the Californias.. Los pobladores del pueblo de los Ángeles (English: The townspeople of Los Angeles) refers to the 44 original settlers and 4 soldiers from New Spain (Mexico) who founded the Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles in 1781, which is now the present-day city of Los Angeles, California.

  5. African Americans in California - Wikipedia

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    For example, many blacks from Los Angeles have moved to desert areas such as Palmdale and Lancaster in the 1990s. The black population in Los Angeles County has been rapidly declining. The black population has also declined in San Francisco. African Americans have the second highest poverty rate in California, after Hispanics.

  6. Nation of Islam - Wikipedia

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    Islam portal Politics portal. v. t. e. The Nation of Islam ( NOI) is a religious and political organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930. A black nationalist organization, the NOI focuses its attention on the African diaspora, especially on African Americans. While describing itself as Islamic, its religious ...

  7. Brown Berets - Wikipedia

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    The Brown Berets ( Spanish: Los Boinas Cafés) is a pro- Chicano paramilitary organization that emerged during the Chicano Movement in the late 1960s. [2] [3] David Sanchez and Carlos Montes co-founded the group modeled after the Black Panther Party. [4] [5] The Brown Berets was part of the Third World Liberation Front.

  8. William J. Seymour - Wikipedia

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    t. e. William Joseph Seymour (May 2, 1870 – September 28, 1922) was an African-American holiness preacher who initiated the Azusa Street Revival, an influential event in the rise of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements. He was the second of eight children born to emancipated slaves and raised Catholic in extreme poverty in Louisiana .

  9. 18th Street gang - Wikipedia

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    The 18th Street Gang, also known as Calle 18, Barrio 18, Mara 18, or simply 18 in North America, [1] [12] [13] [14] is a multi-ethnic (largely Central American and Mexican) transnational criminal organization that started as a street gang in Los Angeles. It is one of the largest transnational criminal gangs in Los Angeles, with 30,000-50,000 ...

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