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Following the 1948 Supreme Court decision that declared restrictive covenants unconstitutional, more and more Jewish families began moving to the expanding suburbs in the western region of the city. Similarly, the newfound ease of obtaining home loans further propelled the Jewish out-migration,��contributing to a major demographic shift in the Eastside. Those who remained in Boyle Heights deepened their connections with the rapidly growing Latinx community.

During this period, the tradition of multiculturalism and leftist political activism that had come to characterize Boyle Heights continued to flourish, and the local Jewish community continued to grow more secular. By the late 1950s, however, most families had relocated to other neighborhoods, although a number of Jewish businesses along the Brooklyn Avenue corridor kept their doors open over the next few decades.

Today, a handful of places associated with Jewish history in the Eastside remain.

One of the most recognizable Jewish monuments in Boyle Heights is the , known as the “Queen of the Shuls.” With 75,000 members at its peak, it was the largest congregation west of Chicago. Canter’s Deli, now a Fairfax District institution, originally opened its doors on Brooklyn Avenue in 1931.

During the 1920s, cosmetics pioneer  made his home in Boyle Heights, drawn by the thriving Jewish community and easy access to downtown.

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East Los Angeles is home to two Jewish cemeteries – Home of Peace and Mount Zion – that serve as the final resting places of many influential Angelenos. Among the notable burials at Home of Peace are Curly and Shemp Howard (two members of The Three Stooges), Fanny Brice, Louis B. Mayer, and Harry, Jack, and Sam Warner (co-founders of the Warner Brothers film studios).

In nearby City Terrace, located in the hills above East Los Angeles, the Menorah Center on Wabash Avenue hosted community ceremonies and offered social services from the 1920s through the 1950s. In 1966, the building was purchased by the Salesian Boys and Girls Club, which continues to operate the building today.

The entry of the U.S. into World War II had a dramatic impact on the local community. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order No. 9066, which allowed for the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans, primarily those living on the West Coast.

Homes and businesses throughout the Eastside were vacated as local residents were uprooted. The population of the Eastside ballooned after the war ended, as both servicemen and the Japanese community returned to their homes.

Like other minority groups, Japanese Americans faced widespread discrimination, even before World War II.

Prejudices among medical professionals prompted Mary Akita, Los Angeles’ first Japanese American nurse, to open her home as a maternity hospital for Issei (first-generation immigrant) women. The maternity hospital became known as Turner Hospital,��the precursor to the 1929 . The Japanese Hospital was established as a result of a seminal case before the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that the State of California could not deny the application of five Issei doctors to incorporate a proposed medical facility in Boyle Heights.

A short distance from the Japanese Hospital is , established in 1934. This location serves as the national administrative headquarters for all Tenrikyo Churches.  It also has an adjacent Japanese library and a dojo that has been instrumental in making Judo an Olympic sport.

�ճ���� (1920s, 1946) exemplify the multiculturalism of the Eastside, including the ongoing presence of the Japanese American community. Although the handball court primarily served the local Mexican American community, the neighborhood of Maravilla was also home to Irish, German, Japanese, and Armenian immigrants in the early twentieth century.

In the 1950s, Shigeru “Tommy” and Michiyo “Michi” Nishiyama began renting El Centro Grocery and lived in a residence that had been constructed on the property. The couple moved to Maravilla after Michi was released from an Idaho internment camp, and they quickly became fixtures of the community.

In 1971, they purchased the handball court and grocery store, turning the site into the primary social and cultural center in Maravilla. Tommy himself was a member of the still-active Maravilla Handball Club. The couple passed away in the mid-2000s, and their son leases the property today to the . The handball court and grocery store were listed on the California Register of Historical Resources in 2012.

The 1910 Mexican Revolution also propelled the development of the area, as thousands of Mexicans immigrated to Los Angeles in the wake of the conflict. In the decades following World War II, the Eastside became predominantly Latinx as other communities moved to the city’s expanding suburbs.

Places such as the ,��,��, and the  demonstrate the unique character that this longstanding community has brought to the Eastside. Within unincorporated East Los Angeles, several distinct neighborhoods, including , Belvedere, and City Terrace, have emerged over time, each with a unique cultural identity.

In addition to significant population shifts, the Eastside was the backdrop for the rise of an important resistance movement in the postwar era.

In the 1960s, activists organized to protest widespread social discrimination against Mexican Americans in what would be called the Chicano Movement. In 1968, students and teachers from East Los Angeles high schools carried out a series of protests known as the East Los Angeles Walkouts or the Chicano Blowouts, which focused largely on educational inequality in local schools, but also aimed to draw attention to other restrictions on residents’ civil rights.

A definitive moment in the Latinx history of the Eastside was the 1970 .

After decades of discrimination, an increase in police brutality, and frustration over the disproportionate number of Mexican American soldiers dying in the Vietnam War, Chicanxs throughout Los Angeles organized the Chicano Moratorium as part of a national movement to protest the war and advocate for social justice at home.

Between 20,000 and 30,000 people participated in the peaceful demonstration that occurred on August 29, 1970 in East Los Angeles. The Chicano Moratorium began at  and followed a route along Atlantic and Whittier Boulevards, ending with a rally at .

Following reports of an incident unrelated to the Moratorium at a nearby liquor store, violence erupted between law enforcement and protestors, ultimately resulting in the death of three people, among them Ruben Salazar. Salazar, a noted Chicano journalist for the Los Angeles Times, was killed in the  by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy.

One month after the Moratorium, Laguna Park was renamed “Ruben F. Salazar Park” in honor of the reporter, who was the first in the mainstream American media to write about the social unrest in the Chicanx community.  A new plaque with information on Salazar’s life was unveiled on August 29, 2014 at Salazar Park, an effort spearheaded by County Supervisor Gloria Molina’s office in collaboration with community activists.

The Eastside has long fostered a vibrant Latinx cultural scene that continues to enliven its historic places today.

Sites such as the ,��, and  embody the artistic movements and rituals that define East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights to this day. For decades, the area has been the epicenter of Chicanx muralism in Los Angeles, with thousands of murals paying tribute to the community’s heritage and empowering locals through stories of both struggle and triumph.

The Chicanx rock scene brought the experiences of ��������������life to broad audiences with the rise of Eastside bands such as Cannibal and the Headhunters and Los Lobos. Countless cultural traditions, including the annual procession in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe at Soledad Church, continue today.