COUNCIL BACKS CHANGE TO SOUTH LOS ANGELES.Byline: Harrison Sheppard Staff Writer The community formerly known as South Central Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. will now be called South Los Angeles South Los Angeles is the official name for a large geographic and cultural area lying to the southwest and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California. The area was formerly called South Central Los Angeles, and is still sometimes called South Central. in official city documents and signs under a City Council decision approved Wednesday. The action was designed to alter the public's perception of the city's African-American neighborhoods, after community members complained that the name was used to symbolize crime, poverty and racial problems. ``It was used as a term when something bad happened,'' said Helen Johnson, a retired beautician and community resident who suggested the name change. ``It was always South Central L.A. Now, anywhere south of the freeway is South Central.'' Councilman Nate Holden Nathaniel "Nate" R. Holden (1929-) served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1987 to 2002. He previously served a term on the California State Senate and was Assistant Chief Deputy to then Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn. expressed skepticism skepticism (skĕp`tĭsĭzəm) [Gr.,=to reflect], philosophic position holding that the possibility of knowledge is limited either because of the limitations of the mind or because of the inaccessibility of its object. that changing the name would solve any of the community's problems, but voted for the change anyway. ``You're in South Los Angeles and the same problems and crime that are happening in South Central will happen in South Los Angeles,'' Holden Holden, town (1990 pop. 14,628), Worcester co., central Mass., a residential suburb of Worcester; settled 1723, set off and inc. 1741. Manufactures include electrical and metal products, plastics, and machinery. said. |
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