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Gangs in South Central Los Angeles
History of Gangs in South Central Los Angeles.
Information taken from the link below.
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Executive Order 8801
Ben Franklin created executive order 8801, which stpos racial discrimination in wartime factories. This opens a vacumn in the North as many African-Americans move to citys such as Los Angeles and take on jobs with companies like Ford. -
South Central
The black population of LA goes from 63,744 to about 736,000. This gives birth to South Central, the only area in the city where African-Americans can own property. Everything else is extremly segregated, and new giant housing projects begin to spring up. -
Houses
After Shelly v. Kremar (link in the description) African-Americans are now free to move outside the crowded area of South Central. However, neighbourhood segregation continues. -
Street Clubs
Early street clubs form from the violence towards African-Americans in white neighbourhoods. After several incidents these small gangs formed and fighting with white gangs started. -
Civil Rights
The Civil Rights Act is passes, which is meant to demolish the racial segregation in America. However, some citys like los Angeles pass laws to evade the Civil Rights Act and segregation continues on a smaller scale. -
Watts Riot
After an arrest of a family when one member was suspected of drunk driving, the African-American community in South Central erupts into a riot that damages millions of dollars of property and injures about a thousand people. -
The Crips
15 year old Raymond Washington is left without any adult gangs members after many are arrested. With no strong gangs left he forms his own, the Avenue Babys, or the Avenue Cribs. A gang that later becomes the Crips. -
The Bloods
As the Crips violence to other gangs increases a few smaller gangs come together to form a powerful alliance known as the Bloods. -
The Death of Raymond Washington
The 25 year old founder of the Crips was shot down on San Pedro and 64th St. in South Central. The murder still remians unsolved. -
Crack Cocaine
Crack Cocaine come to South Central and devasts a place already in bad shape. This highly addictive drug is going to be a large buisness for the Crips and the Bloods later on. -
Rodney King
A groep of police beat an unarmed black motorist, and later in a court hearing were percieved "not-guilty" by a jury without one African-American member. This sparks huge protests in which 58 people die, thousands are injured, as well as billions of dollars of property damage. -
Changing Times
A 200 census shows that 47% of South Central population is now Latino, and there is a population of 20, 000 Asians also living in South Central. There has also been a decrease in gang homicides, but by now Blood and Crip factions have spread nationwide. -
South Los Angeles
South Central is renamed to South Los Angeles in an attempt to bind together the people of Los Angeles. -
Prison
Now about 1 in 4 African American men are sent to prison in their life time, caused by the harshness of the war on drugs. South LA holds 10% of the citys population, and 1 in 4 people there are prison parolees. -
Unsafe Places
Housing estates like Jordan Downs are becoming more dangerous places, with a 1 in 250 chance of being murdered in the area.
