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“Her eyes lit up when she mentioned the grand thoroughfare Central Avenue, where black nightclubs flourished and where the Dunbar Hotel, home to the black elite, stood like a mighty fortress.”
― Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood
― Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood
“When Los Angeles was founded in 1781—as a city of angels—by a group of eleven families, it seemed to throw out a welcome mat to people of color. After all, of that founding group—forty-four men, women, and children—twenty-six were of African descent, black or “black Spaniards,” as they were sometimes called.”
― Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood
― Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood