Why are there so many people of Black ethnicity in LA?

by unconnected3

I was just thinking about California and West Coast rap culture and was curious about the reason that black culture developed so greatly in LA and those areas. I understand the Hispanic aspect of LA and cali as that is rather intuitive. But AFAIK, slavery wasn't allowed in California so that can't be a reason for the amount of Black people in LA. And my limited knowledge leads me to the exoduster movement, but that's just Kansas apparently.

muhaski

As of the 2010 US census, the African American population was only 9.6%.