Before View Park became known as the “Black Beverly Hills,” it was developed in the 1920s by the Los Angeles Investment Company for white homeowners only. By 1940, it was part of the 80% of Los Angeles that was off limits to black families.
“When my husband’s parents, who were very rich, they were lawyers as well and entertainers, they could not live west of Arlington,” Dr. Carol Nicholas, a resident, told KNX News’ Alex Silverman.
In 1948, the Supreme Court would change things with the Shelley v. Kraemer ruling, which determined that state courts could not constitutionally uphold racially restrictive covenants…