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Streets of DreamsBy Jeordan Legon The Orange County Register January 1995 |
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| ABOUT THIS SERIES
Jeordan Legon lived for most of 1994 in the Courtyard Apartments in the predominantly Hispanic neighborhood near 15th and Spurgeon streets in Santa Ana. It is a slice of ever-changing Orange County, a pocket of aging frame bungalows and modern stucco apartments just north of Santa Ana’s Civic Center. Streets of Dreams profiles a neighborhood that 20 years ago was 90 percent white. Now it is 86 percent Hispanic. Many of its residents are newly arrived from Latin America. Some are here legally. Some are not. In interviews with more than 100 people, Legon learned of the immigrants’ families, their faith, their fear of crime, their hopes. And of their concerns about Proposition 187, a measure overwhelmingly passed by California voters in 1994 and designed to deny welfare, public schooling and nonemergency medical care to illegal immigrants. PART 1: First Stop in Pursuit of American Dream PART 2: Gangs, Crime, Gunfire and Fear PART 3: Work, Enterprise and Low Pay PART 4: Churches Wage a Battle for Souls PART 5: Hopes Pinned on Education |
