John Ballard was a former enslaved African-American from Kentucky, who became a leader of the Los Angeles black community (1850s–1870s). That was before the railroad boom attracted more whites to the region. John and wife Amanda Ballard were the first African Americans to settle in the hills above Malibu called Negrohead Mountain, which was later...
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