Los Angeles Announces a Project To Identify and Protect African American Historic Places Within the City

Los Angeles Announces a Project To Identify and Protect African American Historic Places Within the City

August 2, 2021

 

Getty and the City of Los Angeles recently announced the Los Angeles African American Historic Places Project, which plans to identify, protect and celebrate African American heritage within the city.

Despite comprehensive efforts over the years to record Los Angeles’ historic places, the city’s historic designation programs, by their own estimation, do not yet reflect the depth and breadth of African American history. Just over three percent of the city’s 1,200 designated local landmarks are linked to African American heritage.

Over the next three years, the project will work with local communities and cultural institutions to more fully recognize and understand African American experiences in Los Angeles. The work aims to identify and help preserve the places that best represent these stories and work with communities to develop creative approaches that meet their own aims for placemaking, identity, and empowerment.

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