Bronzeville Dalia Castellanos

Samantha Duran

Robert Flores

Brooke Hightower

Little Tokyo

• was an institutional place and the churches and stores were owned by one

third of white laborers by the 1920’s

• By the 1930s LA was about 40% of Japanese and the

population was greater than 20,000.

Bombing of Pearl Harbor

• the japanese were evicted from their homes during the 1940’s

do to the outcome of the bombing of pearl harbor.

THE BEGINNING of BRONZEVILLE

• 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a form stating the removal of Japanese in Little Tokyo.

• African Americans were seeking for a new place to settle in. Looking for employment and housing, they came across Little Tokyo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS5oCLXrQLs

Returning of the Japanese

On January 19, 1945 the Blacks had welcomed the Japanese.

They welcomed them with flowers.

“When something bad happends you have three choices.you can either let it define you,let it destroy you or can let it strengthen you’’

Sources

• ‘’Bronzeville-Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.’’ Downtown Los Angeles. N.p. N.d. Web. 8 October 2013.<www.bronzeville-la.com/>.

• Smith, R. J. The Great Black Way: L.A. in the 1940’s and the lost African American Renaissance.World Cat . New York: Public Affairs, 2006. Web. 13 Oct.201