Then-L.A. City Councilmember Richard Alatorre reflects on his career during a news conference announcing his retirement in 1999. Like Alatorre, I grew up in East Los Angeles and graduated from Garfield High School, notorious during the 1960s for its high dropout rate. When I first met him as a USC political science student in the early 1970s, Alatorre rattled me …
Book Review Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality By Albert M. Camarillo Stanford: 312 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Camarillo relays the history of Compton in the decades following World War II, when it became increasingly Black …
