The United States’ immigration policies, which once granted citizenship to free white persons as stated in the 1790 Naturalization Act, now disproportionately exclude undocumented people of color from equal access to employment through the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

This post was updated July 23 at 7:55 p.m.
The history of Barrington Plaza begins with its completion in 1962 when the median cost to rent an apartment in Los Angeles was under $107.