Editing El Monte, California (section)

===1900s===
El Monte was incorporated as a municipality in 1912. During the 1930s, the city became a vital site for the [[New Deal]]'s federal Subsistence Homestead project, a [[Resettlement Administration]] program that helped grant single-family ranch houses to qualifying applicants. It became home to many 1930s white Americans from the [[Dust Bowl]] Migration.

Photographer [[Dorothea Lange]] took over a dozen photographs of the newly built Homestead homes for her work for the [[Farm Security Administration]] in Feb. 1936. Lange stopped in El Monte a month before she took her most well-known photograph from the period, the [[Migrant Mother]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Time|first=San Gabriel Valley in|title=Dorothea Lange Was in El Monte Before Taking "The Migrant Mother"|url=https://sgvintime.com/home/f/the-contrast-between-dorothea-langes-the-migrant-mother-and-p|access-date=September 22, 2021|website=San Gabriel Valley in Time|language=en-US}}</ref> "In contrast to the apparently positive scene in El Monte... in San Luis Obispo County, Lange captured a far gloomier scene of a Native-American mother with her children." San Gabriel Valley in Time observed.<ref name=":0" />

The area also experienced social and labor conflict during this period, such as the [[El Monte Berry Strike of 1933]], which shed light upon [[institutional racism]] experienced by Japanese tenant farmers and Latino farm laborers.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Tokunaga|first=Yu|date=April 3, 2020|title=Japanese Farmers, Mexican Workers, and the Making of Transpacific Borderlands|url=https://online.ucpress.edu/phr/article/89/2/165/107156/Japanese-Farmers-Mexican-Workers-and-the-Making-of|journal=Pacific Historical Review|language=en|volume=89|issue=2|pages=166–167|doi=10.1525/phr.2020.89.2.165|issn=0030-8684|doi-access=}}</ref>

The city has evolved into a majority [[Hispanic]] community.<ref name=Shyong>Shyong, Frank (December 13, 2014) [https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-el-monte-chinese-20141213-story.html "San Gabriel Valley's El Monte getting a boost from Chinese investors"] ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''</ref> Representing the historical significance of the [[Santa Fe Trail]], El Monte built the [[Santa Fe Trail Historical Park]] in 1989, at Valley Blvd and Santa Anita Ave.<ref name="villageprofile.com"/> The trail remained America's greatest route for several decades thereafter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=21427 |title=Los Angeles |publisher=Ohp.parks.ca.gov |access-date=August 3, 2010}}</ref> The El Monte Historical Museum <ref>{{cite news|url=http://findlocal.latimes.com/el-monte/art/museum/el-monte-museum-of-history-el-monte-museum |title=El Monte Historical Society Museum - El Monte, CA 91731 &#124; Find Local Los Angeles |publisher=Findlocal.latimes.com |access-date=August 3, 2010 |first=Irene |last=Lacher}}</ref> at 3150 Tyler Avenue is considered to be one of the best community museums in the state of California.<ref name="earthlink1"/>