Crenshaw Boulevard exit sign on the Santa Monica Freeway.

The Crenshaw district is located in southwestern Los Angeles, California. The Crenshaw district is southwest of downtown Los Angeles. It derives its name from Crenshaw Boulevard, one of the district's principal thoroughfares. It is generally considered to be a part of South Los Angeles. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1280x960, 433 KB) The Crenshaw Boulevard exit sign on the 10 freeway in Los Angeles, California. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1280x960, 433 KB) The Crenshaw Boulevard exit sign on the 10 freeway in Los Angeles, California. ... Interstate 10; the Santa Monica Freeway segment is highlighted in red and the San Bernardino Freeway is highlighted in blue. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... South Los Angeles South Los Angeles is the official name for a large geographic and cultural area lying to the southwest and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California. ...

Geography

The Crenshaw district is bordered by Chesterfield Square on the east, Hyde Park on the south, View Park-Windsor Hills on the west, and Leimert Park on the north. The district's boundaries are roughly Van Ness and Arlington Avenues on the east, Vernon Avenue on the north, the city limits of Los Angeles on the west, and Slauson Avenue on the south. Hyde Park is a district in South Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, United States. ... View Park View Park-Windsor Hills is a census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... Leimert Park is a neighborhood in southwestern Los Angeles, California. ...

Education

Primary and secondary schools

Public schools

The area is zoned to schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the LAUSD) is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. ...

Crenshaw High School, which is south of Martin Luther King Boulevard and east of Crenshaw Boulevard, is the school in the area. Crenshaw High School is a secondary school located in South Los Angeles, California. ... Martin Luther King redirects here. ...

Susan Miller Dorsey High School serves some areas near the Crenshaw district. Susan Miller Dorsey High School is a high school located in the South Los Angeles section of Los Angeles, California. ...

KIPP: the Knowledge Is Power Program operates the KIPP Academy of Opportunity, a charter middle school, in the area near Crenshaw. Charter schools are publicly funded elementary or secondary schools in the United States which have been freed from some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools, in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set forth in each charter school...

New Design Charter School is a charter school in the area. Built in 2004, this school offers academics, music, and sports. Charter schools are publicly funded elementary or secondary schools in the United States which have been freed from some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools, in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set forth in each charter school...

Neighborhood

The Crenshaw district is a largely residential area of single-story Mediterranean bungalows and low-rise apartment buildings, with an industrial corridor along Jefferson Boulevard. Developed from the early 1920s onward, Crenshaw was initially a very diverse neighborhood of whites (including many Jews and other Eastern Europeans). Covenants on property deeds barred African Americans and Asian Americans from owning real estate in the area. During preparations for the 1932 Summer Olympics, which heralded Los Angeles' arrival as a major world city, Crenshaw's medians and sidewalks were planted with hundreds of the towering palms that, to this day, dominate the area's otherwise low-rise skyline. The 1920s they were sexy referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Languages Historical Jewish languages Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, others Liturgical languages: Hebrew and Aramaic Predominant spoken languages: The vernacular language of the home nation in the Diaspora, significantly including English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian Religions Judaism Related ethnic groups Arabs and other Semitic groups For the Jewish religion, see Judaism. ... African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ... An Asian American is a person of Asian ancestry or origin who was born in or is an immigrant to the United States. ... The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, were held in 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States. ... Genera Many; see list of Arecaceae genera Arecaceae (also known as Palmae or Palmaceae), the palm family, is a family of flowering plants, belonging to the monocot order Arecales. ...

After courts ruled segregation covenants to be unconstitutional, the area opened up to other races. A large Japanese settlement ensued, their neighborhood can still be found along Coliseum Street, east and west of Crenshaw Boulevard. Many of the Japanese-Americans are elderly as their children didn't stay in Crenshaw. African-Americans started arriving in the sixties and by the seventies they were the majority.

Since the 1970s, Crenshaw and neighboring Leimert Park have since formed one of the largest middle-class African-American neighborhoods in the United States, despite heavy damage from the 1992 riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Crenshaw has some rough areas such as "The Jungle" (officially named Baldwin Village), and the 40's, but overall the area is mainly middle-class. For other uses, see Los Angeles riots (disambiguation). ... The 1994 Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17, 1994 at 4:30:55 am Pacific Standard Time in the city of Los Angeles, California. ... Baldwin Village is a community in South Los Angeles and centered around Hillcrest Drive and Martin Luther King Jr. ...

The population of Crenshaw in 2006 was around 27,600. Recently, with increased middle-class African-American migration to newer neighborhoods such as the Antelope Valley and Moreno Valley, and with the increase in Latino immigration, the African-American character of the neighborhood has been somewhat diluted. Still, African-Americans make up 73.34% of the population, followed by Latinos, including Latinos of African descent,^[1] 16.89%, Caucasians, 3.37%, American Indians, 0.43%, Native Hawaiian & other Pacific Islanders, 0.20%, other races, 9.20%, two or more races, 9.32%, and people of Asian descent, 4.35%. A truck passes eastbound along the busy Highway 58 through the Antelope Valley. ... Motto: People, Pride, Progress Location in Riverside County and the state of California Coordinates: , Country State Counties Riverside Area  - City  51. ...

Notable Buildings

The Crenshaw district is known for the Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw plaza shopping mall, which is home to a tri-level Wal-Mart, a Sears and a Macy's, as well as many smaller stores In Los Angeles. A bid to bring Nordstrom to the mall did not work out. The West Angeles Church of God in Christ, on the corner of Crenshaw and Exposition, is home to Bishop Charles E. Blake. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ... This is the page for the department store. ... West Angeles Church of God in Christ is a member church of the Protestant denomination of the same name. ... Bishop Charles Edward Blake Sr. ...

A misconception is that Crenshaw Christian Center is located in the Crenshaw district. Crenshaw Christian Center is actually located at 7901 Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles. The church was originally situated in the Morningside Park district of Inglewood on Crenshaw Boulevard at Hardy Street. Nickname: Location of Inglewood in Los Angeles County, California Coordinates: , Country State County Los Angeles Established 1888 Incorporated February 14, 1908 Government  - Mayor Roosevelt F. Dorn Area  - Total 9. ...

The "Crenshaw Square" sign, a local landmark, had been in serious disrepair for years. In 2007, it was replaced by a modern red-and-green sign that lights up at night.

Crenshaw Boulevard

Crenshaw Boulevard is a major thoroughfare for Los Angeles County. It starts at Wilshire Boulevard in Hancock Park and passes several demographically diverse areas to end in Rolling Hills. Tracks for the No. 5 Los Angeles Railway "yellow" streetcars [1] in the 1920s through 1950s ran in the median between Leimert Boulevard [2] on the north and to near Florence Avenue on the south. Since the abandonment of the streetcars, the former railway median has been narrowed, the driving lanes improved and the street reconfigured. Because of its large black community, it has often been referred to as the 125th Street, or Harlem of the west. Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile District, looking east toward Downtown Los Angeles Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood, looking east toward the Millionaires Mile Wilshire Boulevard is one of the principal east-west arterial roads in Los Angeles, California. ... Hancock Park is a park in Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California which is the location of the La Brea Tar Pits, the George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, and LACMA. Hybrid view in Google Maps. ... Rolling hills are like a mountain chain, only a hill chain of hills that roll on and on continually. ... During World War II, the LARy replaced the mission bell tower in its logo with the slogan Dedicated to Victory. ... 125th Street is a two-way east-west street in Manhattan, considered the Main street of Harlem. ... For other uses, see Harlem (disambiguation). ...

Crenshaw Boulevard has been immortalized in many rap songs by artists such as DJ Quik, Raekwon from the Wu-Tang, Eminem and The Game. The Wu-Tang Clan is a pioneering hardcore rap group, originally from Staten Island, New York (Staten Island is referred to as Shaolin in their lyrics). ... Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known as Eminem or Slim Shady, is a Grammy and Academy Award-winning American rapper, record producer and actor from the Detroit, Michigan area. ... Jayceon Terell Taylor (born November 27, 1979 in Los Angeles,[1] California), better known by his stage name The Game, is a multi-platinum American rapper signed to Interscope Records. ...

In the Crenshaw district, Crenshaw Boulevard and Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza are served primarily by LADOT and four Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus lines: The Los Angeles Department of Transportation, commonly referred to as LADOT, is the agency charged to provide public transportation to the County of Los Angeles. ... This article is about the present transit agency. ...

Line 40 - South Bay Galleria to Patsaouras Transit Plaza via Hawthorne Boulevard and King Boulevard

Line 210 - South Bay Galleria to Hollywood and Vine Station via Crenshaw Boulevard

Metro Rapid Line 710 - South Bay Galleria to Hollywood and Vine Station via Redondo Beach Boulevard and Crenshaw Boulevard

Metro Rapid Line 740 - South Bay Galleria to Patsouras Transit Plaza via Hawthorne Bl and King Boulevard

Crenshaw Boulevard is also briefly served in the Crenshaw district by the following MTA routes:

Line 42 - Los Angeles International Airport to Patsouras Transit Plaza via King Boulevard and Stocker Street. LAX and KLAX redirect here. ...

Line 105 - West Hollywood to Vernon

Line 305 - UCLA to Wilmington/Imperial Station Binomial name Ucla xenogrammus Holleman, 1993 The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla, found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the...

Metro Rapid Line 705 - Vernon and Santa Fe Aves. to West Hollywood

Notable residents and natives

• Kenneth Hahn, (1920–1997) Los Angeles County supervisor
• James Hahn, mayor of Los Angeles, 2001–2005
• Arthur Lee, rock singer
• Darryl Strawberry, professional baseball player
• Eric Davis, professional baseball player
• Ice Cube, rapper and actor
• Ice-T, rapper and actor
• Saaphyri Windsor, reality television star, winner of "Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School."

Mike Naggar, Mayor, City of Temecula Kenneth Ken Hahn was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for forty years from 1952 to 1992. ... James Kenneth Jim Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. ... Arthur Lee has been the name of several notable men: Arthur Lee (1740-1792), U.S. envoy to France Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham (1868-1947), British soldier and diplomat Arthur Lee (born 1945), U.S. psychedelic rock musician Arthur Lee (born c. ... Darryl Eugene Strawberry (born March 12, 1962) is a former baseball player who is well-known both for his play on the baseball field and for his controversial behavior off of it. ... For others of the same name, see Eric Davis. ... OShea Jackson (born June 15, 1969), better known by his stage name, Ice Cube, is an American rapper, actor and film director. ... Tracy Marrow (born February 16, 1958)[1], better known by stage name Ice-T, and nickname is an American rapper, rock musician, author, former United States Army soldier, and actor. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

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