Oakwood, Los Angeles
De facto segregation in hiring practices and real estate sales led to the development of Oakwood as a predominantly African-American neighborhood.Between 1910 and 1920, the population of African-Americans in Venice tripled as black people arrived to work as manual laborers, service workers, and servants to wealthy white residents.Two years later, to escape from racism[2] in Venice, Tabor relocated two of the structures from Kinney's St. Marks Island to their present-day location in Oakwood.They had come to meet the need for defense workers at the nearby manufacturing facilities such as Hughes Aircraft in Culver City and McDonnell Douglas in Santa Monica.The head of the Venice Stakeholders Association said "A large population of black Americans who may have owned from Abbot Kinney’s time voluntarily took their equity and left".[9] In 2012, the Los Angeles Times reported that the breakneck pace of change along on Rose Avenue — at the northern end of Oakwood — suggested that the bohemian days of this once-down-and-out "countercultural beach neighborhood" were numbered.