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Sugar Hill: Segregation by Design

Segregation by Design, 'Sugar Hill,' Los Angeles entry. Documents the destruction of the Sugar Hill neighborhood in West Adams by the Santa Monica Freeway (I-10) in the 1960s.

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segregation-by-design-sugar-hill
Type
web
Trust tier
B
Status
published

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Documents the Santa Monica Freeway (I-10) cutting Sugar Hill in half in the 1960s. The entirety of Berkeley Square, an affluent Black residential block, was swallowed by the project. Caltrans seized property through eminent domain fifteen years after residents won their 1945 legal battle against restrictive covenant enforcement. According to the LA Sentinel, the freeway could have been built without cutting through Sugar Hill; an alternative route through the fraternity and sorority row area around USC was rejected.

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Segregation by Design
Published
2022
Accessed
2026-07-09

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