Who Remembers the Los Angeles of thirty years ago? Fifty years ago? As generations come and go it is easy to forget how precious oral histories are for understanding a people, a time, and a place. With every passing day, fewer and fewer members of the Los Angeles community remain to recall life in the early twentieth century. On April 17, 2005, a discussion was held on the USC campus in conjunction with the USC Doheny Library photographic exhibition 'Life as He Knew it: Photographs of Black Los Angeles from the Walter Gordon Collection'. In the early decades of the twentieth century, Central Avenue was an urban node, a meeting place for Los Angeles Blacks who sought out the community of their peers. Panel participants, who include Walter L. Gordon, Jr., retired judge Dion Morrow and Joan Moore Williams, explore the Los Angeles African-American experience with three people who have witnessed a world that is rapidly fading from living memory. From the Series:USC Presents...