Word: pacoima
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...places in California's San Fernando Valley that was open to blacks during the postwar real estate boom is an area near Pacoima, which real estate people mockingly referred to as the "Joe Louis Homes." In the decades since, the population of the sprawling valley, which lies just over the Santa Monica mountains north of Los Angeles, has swelled to include 1.5 million residents -but only 2.3% are black...