Roger Hickman is a 1988 graduate of Centennial High School in Compton, CA. Sign up on Classmates for free to reconnect with Roger Hickman and other high school alumni. …

This article lists notable people who are natives of Compton, California, or have been residents of the city. Big Fase 100 - rapper, The Game’s older brother. The Game – rapper, actor [7]. …

Jan 11, 2011 · When the legality of racially restrictive covenants was destroyed, white developers with the primary goal of turning a profit looked to creating affordable housing for aspiring …

Jul 4, 2020 · Walter Thompson-Hernandez, who wrote a book about them, said black cowboys have been in Compton since at least the 1950s. Many African American families migrated to …

Jan 7, 2011 · As Director of the Center for Southern California Studies at CSU Northridge and author of "City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the …

Jan 11, 2004 · Record searches and interviews with longtime residents revealed Compton as a typical 1950s suburb where African Americans lived in stable nuclear family homes, with nice …

Compton quickly became an anomalous beacon of hope, the pride of thousands of middle-class African Americans in Southern California through the 1970s. Yet by the 1980s, Compton had …

Jun 26, 1989 · There remains today in Compton a small but thoroughly stubborn black middle class, pockets of people who seem as proud to live there now as they and others were 30 …

Aug 21, 1994 · Compton’s embattled black leadership has responded angrily to the challenge, dismissing allegations of discrimination while characterizing Latino activists as a self-serving …

The Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin pays tribute to noted photographer, R. C. Hickman, who documented Dallas’s African American community through …