![]() ![]() ![]() ‘I come from nothing.’ From cowboy to credit manager, Felix Navarro found his niche as a plantsman: The pandemic won’t slow him down. Lifestyle Once on a no-shop list, this plant shop owner put down roots in Highland Park Which is why today, this nondescript house in urgent need of repair was named one of the 11 Most Endangered Historic Places in the United States, a coveted designation by the National Trust for Historic Preservation that has only been awarded to 363 places in the country over the last 33 years. It would all lead to a court battle that ultimately upheld the 14th Amendment citizenship rights of American children born to noncitizen parents. ![]() ![]() But Jukichi’s decision to buy the home in the names of their three American-born children - to circumvent California’s new Alien Land Law of 1913, which prohibited noncitizens, especially Asians, from owning property - created an uproar among their neighbors. They found it in a modest box-shaped home on Lemon Street in one of Riverside’s nicest - and whitest - downtown neighborhoods. Japanese immigrants Jukichi and Ken Harada were just looking for a healthier place to raise their family, after their 5-year-old son died from diphtheria in the crowded, dusty boarding house where they lived and took in immigrant farmworkers in 1913. ![]()
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