In 1959 my parents were turned away from buying a house in a new tract development in Pomona because they were black. Didn't matter that my dad was an Army Captain in uniform, and my mom looked like Jackie Kennedy with a suntan. They were forced to buy a home in Compton anyway.
It didn't matter that my parents were quality people. Their complexion was just a shade too 'enriched'.
Apparently, its still 1959 in South Pasadena.
Pomona took a lot of blacks after the watts riot. Changed the nature of the city. The surrounding cities wouldn’t see to blacks. HUD or whatever it was at the time moved a lot of ,welfare and parolees to pomona.
That is so sad to hear what your parents went through.