Getty teams with city of Los Angeles to identify places that are important to African American heritage
St. Elmo Village, founded in 1969 as an African American artists' enclave occupying a compound of ten small Craftsmen bungalows in Los Angeles © J. Paul Getty Trust Declaring the historical record woefully incomplete, the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and the city of Los Angeles today announced a three-year effort to identify, protect and celebrate local sites that are central to African American heritage. Of the 1,200 places in Los Angeles designated as cultural or historic landmarks, the Getty and the city note, just over 3% are linked to African American heri...