California
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Subregion
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
- Zoning
- Realtors
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
- Asian
- Native American
- Hispanic
Comments
“Before the 1960s, it was the unspoken custom
of Valley realtors not to sell homes to African-
Americans, then living mostly in the Los Angeles
basin. After the Civil Rights movement took hold, this
custom faded.”
-from Wikipedia
In the mid 1940s, the Los Angeles black
newspaper The Sentinel reported a campaign by the
various Chambers of Commerce in the San Fernando
Valley to exclude all non-whites. The paper warned
that Jews and Catholics might also be targeted.