Browsing: helped legitimize a movement that turned gang members into peacekeepers who helped tamp down violent crime. He brought commercial development to Compton’s sagging downtown. And for 18 years

       He would have taken any job here that paid the bills. What Bakewell didn’t envision was that the one he got — a community organizing gig — would set him on a path to power, as a civil rights leader, a property developer, a business tycoon and publisher of the Los Angeles Sentinel, the city’s legendary Black newspaper.