by Freddie Ra | May 26, 2016 | Africa, Afro-Latinx, Did You Know, History, Profiles in Black History
The Los Angeles Pobladores, or “townspeople,” were a group of 44 settlers and four soldiers from Mexico who established the famed city on this day in 1781 in what is now California. The settlers came from various Spanish castes, with over half of the group being...