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This 7 page paper answers a series of questions about race and leadership in Woodland Hills, California. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Angeles suburb. Discussion The student will need to add specifics from their own experience to the paper; it will deal in basic generalities. First, in order to approach the issue
of race in the community, the logical first step is to find out the racial demographic of the city. According to a website called "skinny," (skinny as in "information"), Woodland
Hills is 77.6% white; 7.6% Latino/Hispanic; 3.4% black; 7.2% Asian; 0.1% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander; 3.5% multiracial and 0.3% identified as "other" (Woodland Hills, CA). It is, in other words, overwhelmingly white.
The town has a very colorful history. The Chumash Indians were there before whites arrived in 1769; the newcomers called the area the "Valley of the Oaks" (History of
Woodland Hills). Fast forward to the early 1900s and a con man named Victor Girard Kleinberger, who eventually took the name "Girard" and called the town after himself (History of
Woodland Hills). In 1922, he and something called the "Boulevard Land Company" bought 2,886 acres which he chopped up into 6,000 lots-this in a region where the average parcel had
typically been 80 acres (History of Woodland Hills). In order to entice buyers, Girard erected "gates, a mosque tower, and a business district with rows of stones with false fronts
to convey the impression of a flourishing economy" (History of Woodland Hills). But Girard believed in the town and its potential, despite his unsavory tactics, and his plans worked:
his newspaper ads and land sales attracted new residents and a lot of new construction began (History of Woodland Hills). He planted more than 120,000 trees in the area to
beautify it; these included pine, sycamore and eucalyptus and its these trees that give the town its name (History of Woodland Hills). The Depression nearly devastated the place, but 75
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