A part of the Santa Monica Mountain used to be known as 'Ni**er-Head Mountain,' The area of the mountain then changed to Negro-Head Mountain and later to 'Ballard Mountain' for John Ballard, a Los Angeles Black pioneer. Ballard arrived in the Santa Monica Mountains in the 1880s. Before settling there, he ran a small delivery […]

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