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Article: Infamous South Central L.A. may get name change
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- April 9, 2003
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LOS ANGELES -- Long a symbol of inner-city violence and social
ills, South Central Los Angeles is on the verge of fading into
history.
The City Council is scheduled to vote today on whether to erase
South Central from the map, renaming the historically black area in
an effort to divorce it from an international image of riots, poverty
and gang crime.
The council is to consider a motion to use the name South Los
Angeles when referring to the region in all future city documents,
such as community plans.
Supporters call it a first step in getting outsiders, particularly
the media and filmmakers, to recognize that what they have been
calling South Central is an ethnically diverse region that ...