A half-century ago, this neighborhood was nicknamed “Harlem of the West” and hundreds of black-owned businesses thrived…Then the government, using race as a factor in its decision, decreed the area blighted and forced thousands of people, including King, from the neighborhood by way of eminent domain. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hMH2ZG8eIjfcY3KMbRGzupQJCTJAD94BJ4IG0
