Aurora Vargas and her family being evicted from their home in 1959. The police removed them and more than 300 other working class Latino families from Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles using the power of eminent domain. Their land was then used to build Dodger Stadium.
Spartan2470 on March 5th, 2019 at 15:50 UTC »
Here is a higher quality version of this image. Here is the source. Here are a few more images of this. A few of those have the following caption:
iamnotbillyjoel on March 5th, 2019 at 15:56 UTC »
and nowadays their taxes would even pay for the stadium.
MonkeyShaman on March 5th, 2019 at 16:02 UTC »
The full story is a bit more complicated, and far worse; the land was originally bought up using eminent domain for the purpose of redevelopment into new housing, parks, and schools, with original residents getting first options to buy the new properties. This never bore out.
The residents received little to no compensation for their properties when they sold them, the McCarthy red scare made an example of this planned public housing project as an “unamerican activity,” and Norris Poulson made preventing the housing a central issue of his successful run for Mayor of Los Angeles. When he took office in 1953, he began to find a way to get out of the city’s obligation and ultimately entered into a shady deal to lure the Brooklyn Dodgers to LA on the promise of building them a new stadium in Chavez Valley. The family depicted in the photo were amongst the last residents to be evicted from the community they had long lived in after a series of broken promises.
Source, with link to a documentary and more reading here:
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chavezravine/cr.html