Word: angeleses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cut to: Black Los Angeles
Sal Castro, a slight, handsome Chicano leader, walks with me through the broken, crumbling barrios of East Los Angeles and tells me: "We have a new nationalism now. There is no more Tio Taco, which is our version of Uncle Tom. We may be a few years behind the blacks...
"Our unemployment is three times that of the whites in Los Angeles. Our economic situation is so bad that less than half of us are able to finish high school. That means we can't even break the language barrier with the whites, so we can't even begin to...
Once they arrive?hardly anyone "settles"?no familial or community traditions bind them. "That's why we have so many nuts out here," says Los Angeles Pollster Don Muchmore. "People come and do things here that they wouldn't normally do back home because such behavior is unacceptable. They...
Electronics, oil, food processing, insurance, Savings and Loan associations, construction?all have been added to the spectrum of California's economic life. Not the least of the benefits of this vitality is the workers' share. California's wage earners constitute a mass aristocracy that takes home about $1.5 billion every...