Ethnic Studies: Los Angeles

"In Your Own Backyard": Civil Liberties Then and Now

Field Trip Info

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Depending on where each field trip begins, the teacher can choose which place to visit first. If you are stopping for lunch the best places are Biddy Mason Memorial Park, the Olvera Street Plaza, or Elysian Park. If you choose the visit to Olvera Street, it can be extended to include the Californio history, “new” Chinatown” and Little Tokyo, all within easy walking distance.

Tuna Canyon Internment Center

6433 La Tuna Canyon Road #3428, Tujunga, CA 91042
https://www.tunacanyon.org/contact-us/

For more on the Tuna Canyon Detention Center, you will visit the Japanese American National Museum (a three minute walk from the Chinese American Museum).

Japanese American National Museum
100 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
https://www.janm.org/

Ballona Discovery Center

13110 Bluff Creek Drive
Playa Vista, CA 90094
https://www.ballonafriends.org/ballona-discovery-park

Chinese American Museum

425 N. Los Angeles Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(The Cross street is Arcadia)
https://camla.org/visit/#hours
(The plaque commemorating the "Massacre" is on the "back" of the museum on Los Angeles Street)

Biddy Mason Memorial Park

333 South Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/biddy-mason-memorial-park

Chavez Ravine/Elysian Park

Site of Cruz Cabral's House
1771 Malvina, next to the LAPD Police Academy off Academy Road
92 Academy Road, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Continue on to 1025 Elysian Park Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90012
https://www.laparks.org/horticulture/chavez-ravine-arboretum
(213) 485-5054

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