Juanita Tate (1938 – July 5, 2004) was an American community developer who organized and developed real estate to address environmental justice, affordable housing, and economic access for all South Central Los Angeles residents.
She incorporated Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles as a non-profit entity.
She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and relocated to the city of Los Angeles in the early 1980s to help the telephone company prepare for the 1984 Olympics, and be close to her paternal family that migrated from Augusta, Georgia to South Central Los Angeles in 1905.
[1] Tate was a member of the City of Los Angeles's Environmental Action Commission from 2002 until her death from complications of a stroke.
Opened in April 2014 in Southern Los Angeles, the retail shopping center built on a brownfield that was formerly a scrap yard and recycling center, commemorates her contribution to the community while she was a CCSCLA member.