It can be difficult to locate Maria Teresa Griffin's name in historical archives or newspaper clippings documenting revitalization or social justice efforts throughout Los Angeles' Eastside. Yet her handiwork is everywhere.
They relied on Griffin, who utilized her thick Rolodexes and neighborhood connections to buttonhole politicians, community members and others to fight. The association, numbering about 100 members in the mid-1980s, began a battle against the prison project that lasted for six years.
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