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Chavez Ravine is a shallow canyon in Los Angeles, California. It sits in a large promontory of hills north of downtown Los Angeles, next to Major League Baseball's Dodger Stadium. Chavez Ravine was named for a 19th-century Los Angeles councilman who had originally purchased the land in the Elysian Park area.
Oct 17, 2018 · Learn how Chavez Ravine, a Mexican American community, was cleared by eminent domain and violence to make way for Dodger Stadium. See photos of the area before and after the transformation.
- Elina Shatkin
- Former Food Editor & Freelance Editor
May 17, 2021 · Learn how Los Angeles destroyed and replaced a Mexican American community in Chavez Ravine with a baseball team. Watch interviews with former residents and explore the complicated legacy of Dodger Stadium.
The Battle of Chavez Ravine refers to resistance to the government acquisition of land largely owned by Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles' Chavez Ravine. The efforts to repossess the land, which lasted approximately ten years (1951–1961), eventually resulted in the removal of the entire population of Chavez Ravine from land on which ...
Named for Julian Chavez, one of the first Los Angeles County Supervisors in the 1800s, Chávez Ravine was a self-sufficient and tight-knit community, a rare example of small town life within a large urban metropolis.
A film by Jordan Mechner that explores the history and legacy of Chavez Ravine, a Mexican American community that was destroyed to make way for Dodger Stadium. Through interviews, archival footage, and photos, the film reclaims and celebrates the lost village and its residents.
Jan 22, 2019 · In the early 1950s, the city decided that Chavez Ravine was the perfect site to build public housing. So the residents were forced to sell their homes under the city's use of eminent domain. But...
