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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
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