Three Mexican-American Neighborhoods Were Destroyed, Their Residents Violently Evicted With Little Or No Compensation, To Clear Land For What Became Dodger Stadium

May 9, 1959: "Los Angeles County Sheriffs forcibly evict Mrs. Aurora Vargas
from her home at 1771 Malvina Avenue in Chavez Ravine."

Dodger Stadium sits on land formerly occupied by three thriving Mexican-American neighborhoods that were destroyed, with the residents receiving little or no compensation for their properties.

Vox's Ranjani Chakraborty and Melissa Hirsch present a short history of Chavez Ravine, which "was one of few places, due to redlining and racist land covenants, that Mexican American families could buy property and build wealth in Los Angeles".

But things changed in the late 1940s.