Represented at Last! The Transformation of Long Beach’s People and Politics explores changes in the City’s political and demographic landscapes by following disenfranchised communities.
Learn how economic and urban development led to waves of Latinx, Black, Indigenous, and Asian migration in the late 20th-century and beyond affect the city today. Understand the significance of electing historically marginalized people into positions of power including Mayor Rex Richardson, the City’s first Black mayor and first mayor from North Long Beach.
“I don’t know of any other area of the world, the size of our city, that has as much cultural diversity as we have. This phenomenon is a great opportunity, or it could be a disastrous one. That, my friends, is up to all of us.” –Doris Topsy-Elvord 1996
By Reina Avila
By Lawrence Fortenberry
By Lauren Casey Sese Ribancos
By Jason Ruiz
By Mackenzie Stanton
By Sandy Vu
Julie Bartolotto, Executive Director
Victoria Roa, Project Lead
Amara Ly, Bianca Moreno, Brian Chavez, Jen Malone, Mikey Davis, Mary Dixon
Researchers
Bianca Villanueva, Cecile Harris Walters, Jason Ruiz, Karen Harper,
Lauren Ribancos, Lawrence Fortenberry, Mackenzie Stanton, Mihir Pandya, Nick Diaz,
Reina Avila, Sandy Vu, Amarakvati Murphy Ly
Narrators
Al Austin, Dee Andrews, Gerrie Schipske, Rex Richardson,
Roberto Uranga, Steven Neal, Suely Saro, Tonia Reyes Uranga
