Bronzeville?  Is there a deeper meaning to this name?  Did this area evolve from Little Tokyo to Bronzeville by accident?  There were Bronzevilles up and down the West Coast.  Wherever there were evacuated Japan towns, due to Anti Black and Asian racial covenants, those spaces were turned into places of Negro occupation.  Japan town real estate was a target.  The dominate society did not invest in the Bronzevilles and most suffered from overcrowding and neglect.  Some city services were non existent: for example, Blacks lived in places with no running water and no sewage.  The areas were unsanitary.  The dominant society waited for the Japanese to return.  Anglos thought the two minorities, African Americans and Japanese Americans, competing for limited spaces to live, would fight in race riots.  Riots would solve the problem.  It would be easy to get the real estate through martial law under the guise of restoring order and stopping anarchy.  But race wars did not happen.  The dominate society eventually got the Japan town real estate through local government development using eminent domain. Only a few Japan towns in the larger cities i.e. Los Angeles, San Francisco etc survived but never to its former stature before evacuation. 

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