Economic factors apparently played a role in where new arrivals settled, said David Heer, a USC professor of sociology and associate director of the university's Population Research Laboratory. The 1990 census showed that Hispanics in Inglewood had increased by 134 percent since 1980, the largest jump in the South Bay. (1983–1997), Inglewood has consecutively elected African-American mayors: Roosevelt F. : 76 Since the term of Edward Vincent Jr. In that decade, whites left the city in increasing numbers, and Inglewood became the first city in California to declare the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. became Inglewood's first black mayor in 1983. : 69 That year composer LeRoy Hurte, an African-American, took the baton of the Inglewood Symphony Orchestra and continued to work with it for 20 years. was appointed as the first black City Council member.
The first black principal among the 18 Inglewood schools was Peter Butler at La Tijera Elementary, : 66 and in 1971, Waddingham wrote, "Stormy racial meetings in 1971" included a charge by "some real estate men in the overflowing Crozier Auditorium" that the Human Relations Commission was acting like "the Gestapo." : 67 In that year, Loyd Sterling Webb, president of Inglewood Neighbors, became the first black officeholder when voters elected him to the school board. On August 31, he rejected an appeal by four parents who said the school board was not responsible for the segregation but that the blacks "selected their places of residence by voluntary choice." At least since 1965, said Deutz, the Inglewood school board had been aware of a growing influx of black families into its eastern areas but had done nothing about the polarization of its pupils into an eastern black area and a western white one. Deutz ordered Inglewood schools to desegregate in response to a suit filed by 19 parents. On July 22, 1970, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Max F. Twenty years later, on February 1, 2011, Butts returned to Inglewood by being elected as its fourth black mayor. Butts left Inglewood in September 1991 at the age of 38 to become the first person of color to command the Santa Monica Police Department as Chief of Police, and the youngest ever to do so. He became Inglewood's first black Motorcycle Traffic Enforcement Officer, first black lieutenant, captain and only black deputy chief in the history of the department.
He was followed by Barbara Harris, the first black female officer, then Otis Hendricks, Melvin Lovelace and Eugene Lindsey.
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A full year later Jimmy Lee Worsham became the second. Moret (of Louisiana Creole Ancestry) became Inglewood's first black police officer. Adults held many heated community meetings, since the Blacks objected to busing as much as did the Whites." : 61 In 1969, an organization called "Morningside Neighbors" changed its name to "Inglewood Neighbors" "in the hope of promoting more integration." : 63 The schools were not prepared to handle racial incidents, even though any that occurred were very minor. Inglewood was a prime target because of its previous history of restrictions." "Fair housing and school busing were the main problems of 1964. A rumored curfew kept blacks off the streets at night. Real estate agents refused to show homes to blacks. Not a single black child attended the city's schools.
In 1960, the census counted only 29 'Negroes' among Inglewood's 63,390 residents. This came to the great displeasure of the predominantly white residents already residing in Inglewood. "No blacks had ever lived in Inglewood", Gladys Waddingham wrote, : 59 but by 1960, "they lived in great numbers along its eastern borders. The Klan had a chapter in Inglewood as late as October 1931. It was this scandal, according to the Los Angeles Times, that eventually led to the outlawing of the Klan in California. A jury returned a "not guilty" verdict for all defendants who completed the trial. The raid led to the shooting death of one of the culprits, an Inglewood police officer.
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Ku Klux Klan activities in Inglewood during the 20th century were highlighted by the 1922 arrest and trial of 37 men, most of them masked, for a night-time raid on a suspected bootlegger and his family. Main article: Ku Klux Klan raid (Inglewood)
11.4 Councilman Morales conflict of interest.11.2 2016 shooting of Marquintan Sandlin and Kisha Michael.6.3 North Inglewood and Fairview Heights.