... Angeles Times Los Angeles history California women settler colonialism celebrity journalism column journalism Alma Whitaker, newspaperwoman, author, feminist, reporter and columnist for the Los Angeles Times from 1910 to 1944, championed women and all manner of women’s rights, from suffrage...

... history youth culture Rock en Español music venues ephemeral forums Los Angeles history Los Angeles maps 1990s MAP ROOM Mapping Ephemeral Music Forums in Latina/o Los Angeles JORGE N. LEAL ABSTRACT This essay examines how maps created by Latina/o youth created ephemeral forums, improvised ad...

... American horror movie ever made. KEYWORDS: African American History and Film, Los Angeles History, California History T HE AFRICAN AMERICAN ACTOR, writer, and director Spencer Williams Jr. served in the U.S. Army for eight years before he began his pathbreaking career in film. In 1914, he joined...

.... Segregated white women s clubs and Freemasonry or- ganizations turned the worship of California into a replacement for older forms of religious practice and civic engagement. KEYWORDS: Los Angeles History, American Studies, religious history L OS ANGELES WAS a rapidly growing city between 1900 and 1930...

..., and forge a new Mexican American ethnic community in the process. KEYWORDS: Los Angeles history, Mexican American history, American studies, Americanization T HE MEXICAN women had just finished hanging up the morning laundry and were enjoying a moment together in the midday sun. Their youngest children...

... is the central focus of this article. KEYWORDS: Japanese internment, California church hostels, Los Angeles history O N SEPTEMBER 12, 1944, Pasadena resident Hugh Anderson met a young woman disembarking from a train that had arrived from Colorado. Earlier that day, nineteen-year-old Esther Takei had left...

... and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2016 Los Angeles History Supermarkets BENJAMIN DAVISON Super City Los Angeles and the Birth of the Supermarket, 1914 1941 ABSTRACT Between 1914 and 1941, Los Angeles businessmen opened supermarkets across the city, begin- ning...