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Opened in 1973, Jewel's Catch One was one of the first black discos in the United States and was for a long time the major black gay bar in Los Angeles. [1] The original owner of the club was Jewel Thais-Williams. She graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in History, and during her college years she wanted to be self-employed. Her first business was ...
Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America (The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies). University of California Press, August 1, 2006. ISBN 0520249909, 9780520249905. Hunt, Darnell and Ana-Christina Ramón (editors). Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities. NYU Press, April 19, 2010.
The similarly august California Club was founded in Los Angeles in 1888 when "at least 12 of the 125 founding members were Jews." But "as the original Jewish members died off, this power center became off limits to Jews." The Jonathan Club, a likewise prestigious social group, was established in Los Angeles in 1894. [2]
The Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles was founded in 1985 by Robin Cannon and Charlotte Bullock in order to form a group to protest the construction of a waste incinerator known as the LANCER within the predominately low income, colored community.
The official logo of The Uplifters, designed by L. Frank Baum for The Los Angeles Athletic Club. The Lofty and Exalted Order of Uplifters or simply The Uplifters is an invitation-only social club at the Los Angeles Athletic Club founded by Harry Marston Haldeman in 1913. The club is still in existence today. Marco H. Hellman
The Dunbar became known in the 1930s and 1940s as "the hub of Los Angeles black culture," [7] and "the heart of Saturday night Los Angeles." [10] In its heyday, it was known as "a West Coast mixture of the Waldorf-Astoria and the Cotton Club." [7] The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner described the Dunbar this way:
The club was established in 1945 by black women active in the community, including Della Mae Givens, wife of architect Paul Williams. [1] The Wilfandel House, which is located at 3425 West Adams Blvd Los Angeles CA 90018, an area commonly known as Arlington Heights, is said to have been built in 1922 by silent film star Ramon Novarro for his ...
The Irvin Tabor Residence was designated as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 2017. [ 7 ] In 2018, American billionaire Jay Penske revealed his plans to convert a former African-American church building in Oakwood into an 11,000-square-foot mansion (1,000 m 2 ). [ 11 ]