The Disneyland of Death! Fighting racism in Glendale. Giving flowers to Michael Jackson.

Today, I'm sharing one of my favorite places in Los Angeles. It’s a place with a complex history and a lot of duality. It's been called the Disneyland of Death—the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

Most of the information for this episode comes from Adela Rogers St. Johns' "First Step Up Toward Heaven: Hubert Eaton and Forest Lawn" which is available here: https://archive.org/details/firststepuptowar0000hube/page/128/mode/2up

Also, a reflectspace.org blogpost called “A Family’s Fight” and an audio/video series produced by the Brand Library and Art Center called “Reckoning Racism and Resistance in Glendale” Available here: https://www.reflectspace.org/afamilysfight and https://www.reflectspace.org/reckoning

Lastly, this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/py8uz1/i_worked_as_a_security_guard_at_forest_lawn/

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