Editing Long Beach, California (section)

===World War II and contemporary history===
Long Beach, as a port city, had a relationship with the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] even before the war.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Garcia |first=Monique |date=March 2023 |title=East Long Beach's Development During WWII |pages=20 |work=Long Beach 908 |url=https://indd.adobe.com/view/71813aa2-7d42-46c6-a469-7e04844ef781 |access-date=May 6, 2023}}</ref> The city was part of the [[Battle of Los Angeles]] during [[World War II]] when observers for the [[United States Army Air Forces]] reported shells being fired from the sea. Anti-aircraft batteries fired into the night sky, although no planes were ever sighted.

Long Beach's population grew substantially during and after the war, with workers being needed for [[Military production during World War II|wartime manufacturing]] and [[G.I. Bill|G.I. bill]] recipients seeking out homes in California.<ref name=":2" /> Suburbs were built by the [[Bixby land companies]] and others.<ref name=":2" />

[[Douglas Aircraft Company]]'s largest facility was its Long Beach plant, totaling {{convert|1,422,350|sqft|m2}}. The first plane rolled out the door on December 23, 1941. The plant produced [[Douglas C-47 Skytrain|C-47 Skytrain]] transports, [[Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress|B-17 Flying Fortress]] bombers, and [[Douglas A-20 Havoc|A-20 Havoc]] attack bombers simultaneously. Douglas merged with the [[McDonnell Aircraft|McDonnell Aircraft Company]] in 1967 where the [[Douglas DC-8]] and the [[McDonnell Douglas DC-9]] were built. In 1997 McDonnell Douglas merged with [[Boeing]], which made [[C-17 Globemaster]] transport planes in Long Beach until the closure of the manufacturing facility in 2015.<ref>Herman, Arthur. ''Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II'', pp. 202–203, Random House, New York, 2012. {{ISBN|978-1-4000-6964-4}}.</ref><ref>Parker, Dana T. ''Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II'', pp. 35–48, Cypress, CA, 2013. {{ISBN|978-0-9897906-0-4}}.</ref>

Long Beach also saw an instance of the Chicano(a) movement in 1968.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.longbeach.gov/health/healthy-living/office-of-equity/reconciliation/equity-timeline|title= Equity Timeline}}</ref>