By Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, October 15, 2020
When Tanita Harris-Ligons moved to Glendale in 2008, she said locals kept asking her where she was visiting from.
“If you’re Black, they didn’t believe you lived there,” she said of the city that was once a bastion for white supremacy groups and a so-called sundown town, where Black people weren’t welcome after dark.
About two years later, her son, Jalani, started middle school in the city, and the children began to separate along racial and ethnic lines, Harris-Ligons said. White children sat at one table, Latinos at another and Armenians at still another, she said.
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