page_title: Gilbert W. Lindsay
section_title: Legacy.
hierarchical_section_title: Gilbert W. Lindsay / Legacy.
caption_attribution_description: English: I took this photo myself at Bunker Hill Towers in Los Angeles. The plaque is attached to a fountain honoring City Council Member Gilbert Lindsay.
context_page_description: Gilbert William Lindsay, also known as Gil Lindsay, was a Los Angeles, California, politician who worked his way up from City Hall janitor to become the city's first black City Council member and one of its most powerful elected officials. He helped fashion downtown Los Angeles into a major metropolitan center but was accused of turning his back on the people in his district who elected him to 27 years on the city's governing body.
context_section_description: The Gilbert W. Lindsay Child Abuse Center at California Medical Hospital "for the councilman's contributions to the Central City community"
  The Gilbert W. Lindsay Endowed Public Policy Forum in Forensic Science at California State University, Los Angeles
  A $250,000, 10-foot-high-artwork by Pat Ward Williams entitled The Emperor of the Great 9th District on the Gilbert Lindsay Plaza fronting the Los Angeles Convention Center
  Gilbert Lindsay Mall, a small plaza at the end of an alley off 2nd Street in Little Tokyo
  Gilbert Lindsay Recreation Center, 429 East 42nd Street
caption: Plaque honoring Lindsay at Bunker Hill Towers
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