Editing Altadena, California (section)

=== Later history ===
[[Redlining]] policies prevented [[African Americans]] from acquiring land or purchasing property in much of California.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/segregation-in-the-city-of-angels-a-1939-map-of-housing-inequality-in-la|title=Segregation in the City of Angels: A 1939 Map of Housing Inequality in L.A.|date=November 14, 2017|work=KCET|access-date=August 14, 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> One of the areas exempt from these policies was Altadena Meadows, which thrived and became one of first middle-class African American neighborhoods in the area.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2017/11/12/altadenas-own-take-on-civil-war-monuments-honors-abolitionist-owen-brown-in-revamped-park/|title=Altadena's own take on Civil War monuments honors abolitionist Owen Brown in revamped park|date=November 13, 2017|work=Pasadena Star News|access-date=August 14, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Shattered in the Fire: A Historic Black Haven |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/us/la-fires-altadena-historic-black-community.html |work=The New York Times |last=Knoll |first=Corina |date=January 14, 2025 |access-date=January 15, 2025 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

[[File:Lake Avenue Altadena.jpg|thumb|Lake Avenue in Altadena, 2011]]While Altadena long refused wholesale [[Municipal annexation|annexation]] by neighboring [[Pasadena, California|Pasadena]], the larger community nibbled at its edges in several small annexations of neighborhoods through the 1940s. Attempted annexation was stopped in 1956 by community campaigns, though it has been resurrected several times since by Pasadena without success. Had the annexation succeeded, Pasadena would be the [[List of United States cities by population|108th largest city]] in the United States.

With early-1960s redevelopment in Pasadena, the routing of extensions of the 134 and 210 freeways, and lawsuits over the desegregation of [[Pasadena Unified School District]], there was white flight and convulsive racial change in Altadena. In 1960, its black population was under four percent; over the next 15 years, half the White population left, and was replaced by people of color, many of whom settled on the west side of town after being displaced by Pasadena's redevelopment and freeway projects.

In 1993, the [[Kinneloa Fire]], begun accidentally on the slopes above [[Eaton Canyon]], burned dozens of homes in Altadena and neighboring [[Kinneloa Mesa, California|Kinneloa Mesa]] as part of a rash of late October wildfires driven by [[Santa Ana winds]] in Southern California. One man died of complications from smoke inhalation and dozens were injured.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |date=2001 |title=20 Largest California Wildland Fires (By Structures Lost) |url=http://www.fire.ca.gov/FireEmergencyResponse/HistoricalStatistics/20largefiresstructures.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011031164438/http://www.fire.ca.gov/FireEmergencyResponse/HistoricalStatistics/20largefiresstructures.asp |archive-date=October 31, 2001 |access-date=October 10, 2022 |website=California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection}}</ref><ref name=":13">{{Cite news |last1=Malnic |first1=Eric |last2=Farrell |first2=David |date=October 28, 1993 |title=13 Fires Ring Southland: 450 Homes Burn; Laguna, Altadena Hard Hit |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-10-28-mn-50441-story.html |url-status=live |access-date=December 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207055901/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-10-28-mn-50441-story.html |archive-date=December 7, 2022}}</ref>

In 2022, Altadena gained local coverage in Los Angeles as the place of the first land return to the [[Tongva]] since the arrival of Europeans in the [[Los Angeles Basin]] area, after a resident donated her 1-acre property to the [[Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Purtill |first=Corinne |date=October 11, 2022 |title=An acre of land in Altadena has been formally transferred to L.A.'s first people |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2022-10-11/essential-california-land-transfer-tongva-essential-california |access-date=December 16, 2022 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=October 10, 2022 |title=Why A Property Worth Millions Was Returned To The Tongva Tribe |url=https://laist.com/news/la-history/why-a-property-worth-millions-was-returned-to-tongva-tribe |access-date=December 16, 2022 |website=LAist |language=en}}</ref> It was described as marking the first time in nearly 200 years that the Tongva have had land in [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles County]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 10, 2022 |title=After nearly 200 years, the Tongva community has land in Los Angeles County |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-10/after-nearly-200-years-the-tongva-community-has-land-in-los-angeles-county |access-date=December 16, 2022 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US|first1=Jonah|last1=Valdez}}</ref>

In 2022, a single lottery ticket was sold to Edwin Castro, which would win a world record US$2.04 billion [[Powerball]] jackpot.<ref>{{Cite news |first1=Aya |last1=Elamroussi |first2=Dakin |last2=Andone |date=November 8, 2022 |title=Winning ticket for $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot sold in California, state lottery officials say |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/08/us/powerball-lottery-record-delayed-drawing-tuesday-trnd/index.html |access-date=November 8, 2022 |work=CNN |language=en}}</ref>