Portal:Greater Los Angeles/Did you know/1

December 2005
 * ... that after the first demonstration by members of Católicos por La Raza at St. Basil Catholic Church (pictured), in downtown Los Angeles, California, the archbishop resigned?
 * ... that the first gang injunction to make headlines was obtained by Los Angeles City Attorney James Hahn against the West Los Angeles-based street gang the Playboy Gangster Crips in 1987?
 * ... that Tomás Rivera, a Chicano author, poet, and educator, was the first Mexican American chancellor of the University of California system?
 * ... that on Christmas Eve 1969, when California lawyer and noted political activist Ricardo Cruz was a law student at Loyola Law School, he was arrested for leading a march of several hundred demonstrators protesting the newly constructed, $4 million St. Basil's Cathedral?