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PROJECT LEADER CONSULTANT, LOS ANGELES AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORIC PLACES PROJECT
Issue Date: April 26, 2021
Getty Conservation Institute (“GCI”) and the City of Los Angeles, led by Los Angeles City Planning’s Office of Historic Resources (“OHR”), are partnering in the new Los Angeles African American Historic Places project (“LAAAHP”). GCI and OHR are seeking Expressions of Interest (“EOI”) from qualified individuals to perform consulting services (“Services”) to develop, manage, and implement the work of the LAAAHP as the designated Project Leader.
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The GCI, a program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, with a mission to advance conservation practice internationally through research, training and education, and dissemination. GCI has conducted international field projects in Asia, Africa, North and South America, and Europe, as well as in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the United States.
Photographer Andrew Feiler at the Carver School in Coffee County, Georgia, working on his project documenting the sites of former Rosenwald schools. (Jim Cottingham/ via JTA)
A restored classroom at the Pine Grove School in Richland County, South Carolina, one of the Rosenwald schools funded by the Jewish philanthropist Julius Rosenwald to educate Black children in the segregated South. (Andrew Feiler/ via JTA)
Rep. John Lewis, who represented Georgia s 5th District for 33 years before his death in 2020, attended a Rosenwald school as a child. (Andrew Feiler/ via JTA)
A portrait of Jewish philanthropist Julius Rosenwald at the Noble Hill School in Bartow County, Georgia one of his namesake Rosenwald schools for Black children in the segregated South. (Andrew Feiler/ via JTA)
KC Tributes to Baseball Great Satchel Paige are Crumbling. Can His House be Saved? Breaking News
Near the center of Forest Hill Cemetery is a patch of grass called Paige Island. Baseball fans from around the world pay tribute there at the grave of one of the greatest pitchers to have ever climbed the mound.
Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige played for the Kansas City Monarchs and other Negro Leagues teams for decades before entering the majors late in a long career. He died a legend in 1982.
The Hall of Famer is also a tourist draw seven miles to the north of the cemetery at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum on 18th Street.
Court rules development can proceed on West Berkeley Shellmound
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A ruling by California Court of Appeal for the First District allows for a housing complex to be built on the parking lot on a sacred Ohlone shellmound and historic village in West Berkeley.
A state appellate court ruled April 20 that a proposed housing and retail complex can be built in the parking lot on a sacred Ohlone shellmound and historic village in West Berkeley.
The West Berkeley Shellmound at 1900 Fourth St. has been a site of contention over the past four years. The development was initially halted by the city of Berkeley in 2018, and its decision was upheld by an Alameda County judge in 2019.