Inglewood, California City of Inglewood Official seal of Inglewood, California Location of Inglewood in Los Angeles County, California Location of Inglewood in Los Angeles County, California Inglewood, California is positioned in the US Inglewood, California - Inglewood, California County Los Angeles Rank 12th in Los Angeles County Inglewood is a town/city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, southwest of downtown Los Angeles.
It was incorporated on February 14, 1908. The town/city is in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park is presently under assembly in the town/city and when instead of around 2019 will be the new home of both the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers.
5.1.4 Los Angeles County The earliest inhabitants of what is now Inglewood were Native Americans who used the natural springs in today's Edward Vincent Jr.
Waddingham traced the written history of Inglewood back to the initial settlers of Los Angeles in 1781, one of whom was the Spanish soldier Jose Manuel Orchado Machado, "a 23-year-old muleteer from Los Alamos in Sinaloa".
Commercial Street (later La Brea Avenue) in Inglewood, sometime around 1910 Inglewood Park Cemetery, a widely used cemetery for the entire region, was established in 1905,. The town/city has been home to the Hollywood Park Racetrack from 1938 to 2013, one of the premier horse racing venues in the United States. Fosters Freeze, the first Soft Serve ice cream chain in California, was established by George Foster in 1946 in Inglewood. Inglewood was titled an All-America City by the National Civic League in 1989 and yet again recently in 2009 for its visible progress. On January 12, 2016, Inglewood was chose to be the home of the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League. Main article: Ku Klux Klan in Inglewood, California The raid led to the shooting death of one of the culprits, an Inglewood police officer.
It was this scandal, as stated to the Los Angeles Times, that eventually led to the outlawing of the Klan in California. The Klan had a chapter in Inglewood as late as October 1931.
This came to the great displeasure of the dominantly white inhabitants already residing in Inglewood.
In 1960, the census counted only 29 'Negroes' among Inglewood's 63,390 residents.
Adults held many heated improve meetings, since the Blacks objected to busing as much as did the Whites.":61 In 1969, an organization called "Morningside Neighbors" changed its name to "Inglewood Neighbors" "in the hope of promoting more integration.":63 Moret became Inglewood's first black police officer (who is of Louisiana Creole Ancestry).
The 7th black officer in the history of the City of Inglewood was James T.
He became Inglewood's first black Motorcycle Traffic Enforcement Officer, 1st Black Lieutenant, Captain and only black Deputy Chief in the history of the Department.
Twenty years later, on February 1, 2011 Butts returned to Inglewood by being propel as its fourth black mayor. Deutz ordered Inglewood schools to desegregate in response to a suit filed by 19 parents. At least since 1965, said Deutz, the Inglewood school board had been aware of a burgeoning influx of black families into its easterly areas but had done nothing about the polarization of its pupils into an easterly black region and a white one. On August 31, he rejected an appeal by four parents who said the school board was not responsible for the segregation but that the blacks "selected their places of residence by voluntary choice." The first black principal among the 18 Inglewood schools was Peter Butler at La Tijera Elementary,:66 and in 1971, Waddingham wrote, "Stormy ethnic meetings in 1971" encompassed a charge by "some real estate men in the overflowing Crozier Auditorium" that the Human Relations Commission was acting like "the Gestapo.":67 In that year, Loyd Sterling Webb, president of Inglewood Neighbors, became the first black officeholder when voters propel him to the school board. was appointed as the first black City Council member.:69 That year composer Le - Roy Hurte, an African-American, took the baton of the Inglewood Symphony Orchestra and continued to work with it for 20 years.:75 Edward Vincent became Inglewood's first black mayor in 1983.
In that decade, caucasians left the town/city in increasing numbers, and Inglewood became the first town/city in California to declare the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The 1990 census showed that Hispanics in Inglewood had increased by 134 percent since 1980, the biggest jump in the South Bay.
And I would say that they receive a warmer welcome here," said Norm Cravens, assistant town/city manager in Inglewood, where the Anglo populace dropped from nearly 21 percent in 1980 to 8.5 percent in 1990. In the 2000 census, blacks made up 47 percent of the city's inhabitants (53,060 citizens ), and Hispanics made up 46 percent (51,829), but the Enumeration Bureau estimated that in 2007 the percentage of blacks had declined to 41 percent (48,252) and that of Hispanics of any race were at 52.5 percent (61,847).
Downtown Inglewood is 4.15 miles (6.68 km) from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
The Forum was assembled in 1967 and designed by architect Charles Luckman, who also designed Madison Square Garden. The Forum was intended to evoke the Roman Forum. For decades the Forum was one of LA's biggest-deal concert venues; Elvis Presley, Led Zeppelin and the Jackson 5 were among the superstars to headline the arena. The Forum also accomplished its greatest fame as the home of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers and the NHL's Los Angeles Kings.
On February 24, 2015, the Inglewood City Council allowed plans for the assembly of a National Football League-capacity stadium, later titled Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park, with a 5 0 unanimous vote to combine the 60-acre plot of territory with the larger Hollywood Park evolution and rezone the region to include Sports/Entertainment capabilities.
This essentially cleared the way for developers to begin assembly on the venue as prepared in December 2015. On January 13, 2016, one day after the NFL allowed of the Rams return to Los Angeles, assembly began on the Inglewood site. The neighborhoods are the following areas: Morningside Park, Downtown Inglewood, Fairview Heights, Arbor Village, Centinela Heights, Sports Village, Century Heights, Inglewood Knolls, and Lockhaven. The Crenshaw-Imperial precinct was a later annexation to Inglewood, California.
Although the town/city of Inglewood does not define the district's boundaries, it may be delineated by Hyde Park on the north, Manchester Square on the east, Century Boulevard on the south and Prairie Avenue on the west.
It is six miles (10 km) from Los Angeles International Airport and about two miles (3 km) from the under assembly Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park for the NFL's Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers.
The precinct is also the locale of The Forum, where for 32 years the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers and NHL's Los Angeles Kings played and The Village at Century strip mall.
Situated in the southeastern corner of the city, Inglewood Knolls is a subdivision of tract homes assembled in 1953 54.
Century Park Elementary School on Spinning Ave., although fully inside Inglewood town/city limits, is actually part of the L.A.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Inglewood had a populace of 109,673.
The ethnic makeup of Inglewood was 48,165 (43.9%) African American, 25,563 (23.3%) White (2.9% Non-Hispanic White), 751 (0.7%) Native American, 1,484 (1.5%) Asian, 350 (0.3%) Pacific Islander, 28,860 (26.3%) from other competitions, and 4,502 (4.1%) from two or more competitions.
The age distribution was spread out with 29,293 citizens (26.7%) under the age of 18, 11,853 citizens (10.8%) aged 18 to 24, 31,650 citizens (28.9%) aged 25 to 44, 26,621 citizens (24.3%) aged 45 to 64, and 10,256 citizens (9.4%) who were 65 years of age or older.
According to the 2010 United States Census, Inglewood had a median homehold income of $43,394, with 22.4% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. Inglewood's populace of 129,900 in 2006 was mostly youthful, with a median age of 31, compared to 36 in the country as a whole.
Of Inglewood's 37,562 occupied housing units (houses and apartements), just 39 percent were owned by the citizens who lived in them (compared to 67 percent in the U.S.
It was estimated that 18 percent of Inglewood families had incomes below the poverty level, about twice that of the nation at large (9 percent).
About 17 percent of Inglewood's inhabitants had earned a bachelor's degree or higher (versus 27 percent athwart the country).
In 2009, the Los Angeles Times's "Mapping L.A." The City of Inglewood has a council-city manager type of government.
In the United States House of Representatives, Inglewood is split between California's 37th congressional district, represented by Democrat Karen Bass, and California's 43rd congressional district, represented by Democrat Maxine Waters. In the California State Legislature, Inglewood is in the 35th Senate District, represented by Democrat Steven Bradford, and in the 62nd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Autumn Burke. See also: Government of Los Angeles County Inglewood is part of Los Angeles County, for which the Government of Los Angeles County is defined and authorized under the California Constitution, California law, and the Charter of the County of Los Angeles. The county government is primarily composed of the propel five-member Board of Supervisors, other propel offices including the Sheriff, District Attorney, and Assessor, and various county departments and entities under the oversight of the chief executive officer.
Inglewood has the highest percentage of registered Democrats of any town/city in California, with 75.6 percent of its 48,615 voters registered in May 2009 as Democrats.
In 2005, the Bay Area Center for Voting Research, a nonpartisan organization in Berkeley, ranked Inglewood as the sixth-most-liberal town/city in the United States, after Oakland, California, and just ahead of Newark, New Jersey.
Inglewood Public Library in Inglewood's Civic Center Hillcrest Inglewood Post Office features art created under the New Deal's Works Progress Administration.
The United States Postal Service operates postal services in Inglewood.
The Hillcrest Inglewood Post Office is its chief one.
It is positioned at 300 East Hillcrest Boulevard in Downtown Inglewood. and the Morningside Park Post Office at 3212 West 85th Street is the secondary office. The North Inglewood Post Office at 811 North La Brea Avenue, was converted to a Dollar Tree in 2013. Fire protection is provided by the Los Angeles County Fire Department stations 18, 170, 171, and 173.
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services operates the Curtis Tucker Health Center in Inglewood. The town/city was served by the Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital for more than five decades, from 1954 until its closure in 2007.
Inglewood is still served by Centinela Hospital Medical Center.
The City of Inglewood operates a chief library in the town/city Civic Center, in addition to a branch in the southeastern corner of the city, near the intersection of Crenshaw and Imperial and a branch in Morningside Park near the intersection of 85th Street and Crenshaw. Inglewood High School Inglewood High School students portrayed historic characters when the restored mural behind them was dedicated in August 2007.
Most of Inglewood is served by the Inglewood Unified School District.
The precinct has two zoned high schools, Inglewood High School and Morningside High School, and an alternative high school, City Honors High School.
Some of it is zoned in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
LAUSD operates one school in the Inglewood town/city limits, Century Park Elementary. When the Inglewood Union High School District, now known as the Centinela Valley Union High School District, opened in 1905, the Inglewood School District, then only operating major schools, was inside the high school district.
On July 1, 1954, the Inglewood elementary school precinct withdrew from the Centinela Valley district, becoming a unified school district. Animo Inglewood Charter High School of Green Dot Public Schools Mary's Academy left its home of many years on Slauson Avenue [at Crenshaw Boulevard] in Los Angeles for a new building on Grace Avenue athwart from [Daniel] Freeman Hospital".:62 The first teacher was Minnie Walker, a graduate of Los Angeles State Normal School.
It remained Inglewood's only school until 1911.
Inglewood High opened in two rooms of the school building with 15 students taught by Nina Martin, principal, and Anna Mc - Clelland.
Four years later, a new building rose on 9.5 acres (3.8 ha) of land, and the first graduation of one boy and four girls took place in 1908.:13 14 Until 1912 there was a new principal every year at the grammar school, but on May 8 of that year George W.
Green was appointed principal of Inglewood Union High School; he retired from that position in 1939.:22 In 1915 Inglewood High won a first-place Los Angeles County prize for its beautiful ivy-covered brick buildings.:24 These buildings were finished in 1953 to make room for new ones.:unpaged In the mid-1920s, the high school precinct stretched all the way south to El Segundo, so two women teachers were asked to live in El Segundo and ride the school buses with the students every day to and from that town/city for an extra dollar a day in pay.
The "startling news" of 1948 was the dismissal "of the entire administrative staff at Inglewood High School, beginning with Principal James R.
In 1952, another secondary school ground in Inglewood was opened in the east side neighborhood of Lockhaven as Morningside High School.:55 Center Park School of Los Angeles became part of the Inglewood School District in 1961 when its region (Crenshaw-Imperial) was took in to the city.:59 In the 1970s, its name was changed to Worthington School to honor Frances and William Worthington.:74 In 2007, the region served by the Inglewood postal service (including Lennox) had 98 churches, temples, mosques, chapels and other homes of worship, as stated to the Area - Connect.com website. The first church service was held on April 22, 1888, in the Inglewood House hotel on Commercial Street (today's La Brea Avenue), popularly called Mrs.
Later services were in Bucephalus Hall, but eventually the congregation moved to Hyde Park, which left Inglewood with no church.
Originally positioned in Centinela Park, it was restored and moved to Grevillea Art Park near the Inglewood town center.
The Southeast Symphony Association is a non-profit, musical and cultural association positioned in Inglewood, California established in 1948 whose goal continues to be to problematic an orchestra that welcomes black musicians. Arts and Culture Programs Inglewood Cultural Arts, Inc., a nonprofit multidisciplinary arts organization was established in 1999 by members of the City of Inglewood's Cultural Arts Task Force.
The Morningside Park Chronicle, Inglewood News and Inglewood Today circulate in the city. Inglewood is affiliated with the following sister metros/cities Salvatore (Sonny) Bono singer, actor, and congressman, attended Inglewood High School Inglewood City Hall (1 Manchester Boulevard): The outside of City Hall was the fictional IADC (Inter-Agency Defense Command) Headquarters for The New Adventures of Wonder Woman and also the coroner's office in Jack Klugman's 1970's Television Drama Series Quincy, M.E.. Los Angeles Times suburban sections, for a time capsule placed in the Inglewood City Hall "California Cities by Incorporation Date".
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