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Hyde Park is a district in South Los Angeles
South Los Angeles

South Los Angeles, often abbreviated as South L.A., is the official name for a large geographic and cultural portion lying to the southwest and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California....
 in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
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Park is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city of Los Angeles. It was established in 1887 as a stop on the Santa Fe Railroad's Harbor Subdivision, which ran from Downtown Los Angeles to the port at Wilmington
Wilmington, Los Angeles, California

Wilmington, California is a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, with industry as its primary economic activity. It lies adjacent to the Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, and Harbor City, Los Angeles, California....
 in a westward loop.

It was incorporated as a city in 1922, with its own government, but on May 17, 1923, its was consolidated with the larger city after a favorable vote by Hyde Park residents.






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Hyde Park is a district in South Los Angeles
South Los Angeles

South Los Angeles, often abbreviated as South L.A., is the official name for a large geographic and cultural portion lying to the southwest and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California....
 in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
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History

Hyde Park is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city of Los Angeles. It was established in 1887 as a stop on the Santa Fe Railroad's Harbor Subdivision, which ran from Downtown Los Angeles to the port at Wilmington
Wilmington, Los Angeles, California

Wilmington, California is a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, with industry as its primary economic activity. It lies adjacent to the Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, and Harbor City, Los Angeles, California....
 in a westward loop.

It was incorporated as a city in 1922, with its own government, but on May 17, 1923, its was consolidated with the larger city after a favorable vote by Hyde Park residents. The city of Hyde Park was bordered by 60th Street on the north, Van Ness Avenue on the east, and the city of Inglewood
Inglewood, California

Inglewood is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, southwest of downtown Los Angeles, California. It was incorporated on February 14, 1908....
 on the south and west. (Sources: Annexation and Detachment Map, City of Los Angeles, 2005, and Leonard Pitt and Dale Pitt, Los Angeles A to Z, 1997, page 214).

Hyde Park grew slowly until the 1920s, during which time developers erected thousands of single-family houses and duplexes along its streets (many of which were replaced by apartment buildings in the 1950s and 1960s). During the 1960s, it became a predominantly African-American area, which it has remained into the 21st century.

Demographics

Hyde Park is a majority black
African American

African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the Black people populations of Africa....
 area, as is most of this portion of Los Angeles.The population is around 37,000. As of 2006, the racial make up of Hyde Park was 1.63% White
White people

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, 68.73% Black, 0.38% American Indian
Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans in the United States are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States United States, including parts of Alaska and the island state of Hawaii....
 & Alaskan Native alone, 0.71% Asian
Asian people

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, 0.06% Native Hawaiian
Native Hawaiians

Native Hawaiians refers to the indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands or their descendants. Native Hawaiians trace their ancestry back to the first Marquesas Islands and Tahitian settlers of Hawaii , before the arrival of British explorer Captain James Cook in 1778....
 & Other Pacific Islander
Pacific Islander

Pacific Islander , is a regional geography term to describe the Austronesian people inhabitants of any of the three major sub-regions of Oceania: Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia....
 alone, 17.11% some other race, 3.95% two or more races, and 27.32% Hispanic of any race.

Education

Residents are served by the Los Angeles Unified School District
Los Angeles Unified School District

Los Angeles Unified School District is the largest public school system in California. It is the List of the largest school districts in the United States by enrollment in the United States....
 through two schools:
  • Crenshaw High School
    Crenshaw High School

    Crenshaw High School is a secondary school located in South Los Angeles Los Angeles, California.The school first opened in 1968 and currently enrolls an average of 2,600 students....
  • Angeles Mesa Elementary School


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