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Shameful Victory
The Los Angeles Dodgers,
the Red Scare, and
the Hidden History of
Chavez Ravine
John H. M. Laslett
tucson
The University of Arizona Press
www.uapress.arizona.edu
© 2015 The Arizona Board of Regents
All rights reserved. Published 2015
Printed in the United States of America
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ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-0086-4 (paper)
Cover designed by Carrie House, HOUSEdesign llc
Cover photos: (top) New Routes to and from Dodger Stadium. Herald-Examiner
Collection/Los Angeles Public Library; (bottom) Eviction of Aurora Vargas from Arechiga
family home on May 8, 1959. Courtesy of UCLA Special Collections.
Excerpts from
Chavez Ravine, 1949
© 1999 by Don Normark, used with permission of
Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco. Visit ChronicleBooks.com.
Publication of this book is made possible in part by the proceeds of a permanent
endowment created with the assistance of a Challenge Grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Laslett, John H. M., author.
Shameful victory : the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the hidden history of
Chavez Ravine / John H. M. Laslett.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8165-0086-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.)—History—20th century. 2. Public housing—
California—Los Angeles. 3. Los Angeles (Calif.)—Politics and government—20th century.
4. Hispanic American neighborhoods—California—Los Angeles—History—20th century.
5. Land use—California—Los Angeles—History—20th century. 6. Mexican Americans—
California—Los Angeles—History—20th century. 7. Mexican Americans—California—
Los Angeles—Social conditions. 8. Los Angeles (Calif.)—Race relations—History—20th
century. 9. Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles, Calif.)—History—20th century. I. Title.
F869.L86C438 2015
979.4'94—dc23
2015003060
This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).
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