Protesters defacing a shrine to immigrants of the past while fighting for the immigrants of today — it was a sad irony for the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles.

"was split in half" by the construction of the 5 Freeway shortly after Gatto's father's family moved there in the late 1940s. She said some Italian Americans look skeptically on the immigrants of ...

African Americans and West Indians. In the 1940s, when Italians and Jews had already been moving out, Puerto Ricans arrived in large numbers. By 1950, East Harlem would be largely African American ...