Editing East Los Angeles, California (section)

===New name: East Los Angeles===
In 1932 local business leaders gave the name East Los Angeles to Belvedere and adjacent areas (that had been known as Belvedere Gardens, Belvedere Heights, Laguna, etc.) However, in 1937 the Automobile Club of Southern California put up three large signs, "Belvedere Gardens". This led to the business leaders uprooting the signs, with a "burial ceremony" for the signs with 150 state, county, and city officials attending, and they rechristened the area East Los Angeles. Several county buildings were renamed in line with the new appellation. At that time the area had 75,000 residents and was "declared to be the largest unincorporated locality in the world."<ref>{{cite news |title=Belvedere drops name: East Los Angeles Conducts Burial for District's Old Title |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56713246/belvedere-becomes-east-los-angeles/ |work=Los Angeles Times |date=September 11, 1937 |page=6}}</ref>

East Los Angeles was a significant site during the [[Chicano Movement]], which included the [[East L.A. walkouts|East L.A. Walkouts]] in 1968 and the National [[Chicano Moratorium]], in which [[Ruben Salazar]] was killed.<ref name=":33">{{Cite book |last=Suderburg |first=Erika |title=Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |year=2000 |isbn=9780816631599 |pages=191}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sahagun |first=Louis |title=Know your East L.A. history. A day of rage and racist neglect |url=https://www.latimes.com/projects/chicano-moratorium/east-la-protest-gave-voice-chicano-movement/ |access-date=2023-01-27 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en}}</ref>

Multiple campaigns by residents have been made for [[municipality|cityhood]] for East Los Angeles, such as in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cityhoodforeastla.org|title=Cityhood for East Los Angeles|website=cityhoodforeastla.org|access-date=2010-11-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101110072047/http://www.cityhoodforeastla.org/|archive-date=2010-11-10|url-status=dead}}</ref>