Posted on 04/06/2021 9:06:44 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Getty and the city of Los Angeles are expected to announce Tuesday the launch of the African American Historic Places Project, a three-year initiative to identify and preserve landmarks that represent Black heritage across L.A.
The project will address a disparity in local landmark designations: Only about 3% are connected to African American heritage. The goal is to more accurately reflect the history of the city.
The Office of Historic Resources knows that its landmark designation programs do not yet reflect "the diversity and richness of the African American experience in Los Angeles,” said Ken Bernstein, principal city planner . “There's much work to be done to rectify that disparity and ensure that the heritage of African Americans in Los Angeles is fully woven into our historic designation, and recognition of historic places .”
The project is a continuation of a nearly 20-year partnership between the Getty Conservation Institute and the city on local heritage projects.
Building on previous research, the African American Historic Places Project was also driven by the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, the global uprisings last summer and a reckoning within the conservation sector, said Susan Macdonald, head of the Buildings and Sites Department at the Getty Conservation Institute.
Many of the city’s landmarks received their designation based on architecture, but preservation is not only about buildings, Bernstein said. Landmark designation can “extend beyond the physical to take in what might be considered more intangible heritage.”
Cultural heritage and landmarks represent history, Macdonald said.
“If they don't accurately reflect that history and past, then you're getting an impoverished or a misreading of history ,” Macdonald said. “It can be used as a vehicle to rectify erasures of history.”
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Flash Records, another record store with a diskery, home of the Jayhawks and the Poets was a couple three blocks to the east on Vernon.
I recalled earth angel immediately. Must be ole!
Don’t forget the Chinese. In 1850 there were more than 50,000 Chinese in California. There were more Chinese in California than there were Mexicans. Not only did they build the railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains, Chinese laborers built the Hotel Del Coranado in the 1880’s. After that Chinese people moved to Mexicali and Calexico on the California - Mexican border where their descendants are to this day.
Be interesting to see all those historical riot landmarks with plaques and statues...
What designation will they give the intersection where the blacks nearly beat Reginald Denny to death???
its ridiculous...+
Brain Damage intersection.
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