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Locked out of L.A.’s white neighborhoods, they built a black suburb. Now they’re homeless

September 9, 2019/in Press

Duane Pierfax grew up after World War II in Pacoima, one of the few Los Angeles suburbs that offered the American dream of home ownership to African Americans who had been locked […]

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