In the 1960s and 70s, young, Black middle-class families flocked to Compton for the opportunity to live in a progressive, Black space created by Black businesses and civic and political engagement.
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In Compton, a School That Paved the Way for Generations of Black Artists
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In Compton, a School That Paved the Way for Generations of Black Artists
Between 1969 and 1975, the Communicative Arts Academy was a vital hub for a community largely excluded from Los Angeles’s cultural institutions.
A student at the Communicative Arts Academy in Compton, Calif., where the syllabus was designed to instill in participants a sense of Black pride.Credit.Courtesy of Willie Ford Jr. and the Compton Communicative Arts Academy Collection, Special Collections and Archives, John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, California State University, Los Angeles
, on American democracy.
Last summer, DonnaLee Norrington had a dream about owning a home. Not the figurative kind, but a literal dream, as she slept in the rental studio apartment in South Los Angeles that she was sharing with a friend.
At around 2 a.m., Norrington remembers, God said to me, Why don t you get a mortgage that doesn t move? And in my head I knew that meant a fixed mortgage. / Nevil Jackson for NPR
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DonnaLee Norrington in her bedroom in Compton, Calif. Last summer, as she slept in a rental studio apartment in South Los Angeles, she had a dream about owning a home for the first time. Norrington was 59 at the time.
Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership
This story is part of an NPR series, We Hold These Truths, on American democracy.
Last summer, DonnaLee Norrington had a dream about owning a home. Not the figurative kind, but a literal dream, as she slept in the rental studio apartment in South Los Angeles that she was sharing with a friend.
At around 2 a.m., Norrington remembers, God said to me, Why don t you get a mortgage that doesn t move? And in my head I knew that meant a fixed mortgage.
The very next morning â she made an appointment with Mark Alston, a local mortgage broker well known in South LA Black community, to inquire about purchasing her very own home for the first time.