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Wall Street of the West

A term later used to describe downtown Los Angeles, where Biddy Mason’s real estate investments in the late 19th century occupied a core part of the city’s financial district. Her land holdings contributed to her status as one of the wealthiest Black women west of the Mississippi.

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Meet Biddy Mason, the Black Matriarch Who Helped Build Los Angeles

Southern California’s perennial sunshine rarely penetrated the ground-floor lockup of the Los Angeles county jail. On the best of days a dank stillness would have encased the adobe chamber and those confined within. And this was the worst of days.

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