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Lloyd Wilkins is one of the several longtime residents of Richland Farms who has seen the city change over the years. During that time the 42-year veteran public school teacher has kept tabs on the political workings of Compton, becoming an 'old school' political provocateur.
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The fire is a longtime annual event where residents, and even some travelers from afar, haul their Christmas trees into a large pile. Firefighters use it as a safety demonstration, the community enjoys the spectacle.
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Marie Hollis is one of the many African-Americans who migrated from the South to the West after World War II. Where she eventually settled, and still lives, is Compton's Richland Farms.
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Skeletal remains found at the construction site of a downtown Los Angeles museum have been a focal point for American Indians in Southern California this week. Despite requests to stop archaeological excavation from a state commission, work continues, museum officials said today.
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When Ellis Cooke, a white family man, moved to Compton in 1962, it was a time when whites and blacks peacefully coexisted. That, however, was a very unique sandwiched-in period for the city. Before the courts struck down racially restrictive covenants--deeds that prohibited blacks and other races from living on a property--in 1948, Compton was white. Really white.
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When Ellis Cooke moved to Compton's Richland Farms neighborhood in 1962, it already had a bad reputation, one that he had been hearing about since the 1940s. However, it wasn't the same violent notion that has been portrayed by the music and film industries.
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Human remains found at the downtown L.A. museum construction site of LA Plaza De Cultura y Artes have prompted a state commission to request the project be stopped while an investigation determines if they are of American Indian origin or not.
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To start the journey into Richland Farms, a sense of place and history will help
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Departures is KCET's oral history and interactive documentary project that thoroughly explores neighborhoods through the people that live there. So far, Venice, Chinatown, the L.A. River (a new version of it will launch soon) and Richland Farms in Compton have been extensively profiled.
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