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JATAUN VALENTINE & NAVALETTE TABOR BAILEY - Venice Residents

Jatuan Valentine & Navalette Baily
Jatuan Valentine & Navalette Baily
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1/4: From Louisiana to Venice
2/4: On Segregation
3/4: A Fortress
4/4: Gangs & Drugs

When Venice founder Abbot Kinney died in 1920, he left his private home to his long-time chauffeur and companion Irving Tabor. Tabor's family had moved from Louisiana to California at the turn of the 20th century and relocated to Sixth Street in Oakwood, where blacks were allowed to inhabit. Tabor's niece, Navalette Baily, and her cousin, Jataun Valentine are the only remaining residents from that first wave of migration from the South. The women are a living memory of the hope and aspirations of their family, and testament to the ways in which the black community has adapted to change in Oakwood.

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