His work has been called masterful and moving. Historian Douglas Flamming will speak about his new book, "Bound For Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America."

For African Americans in LA during the first half of the 20th century, it was both the best of times and the worst, according to historian Douglas Flamming of the Georgia Institute of Technology. LA was neither ghetto nor slum, he writes. Even so, racism existed. Flamming will discuss his new book, Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America (University of California Press, 2005) at this event sponsored by the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, the USC Institute on California and the West and the USC Black Alumni Association. He will also discuss the role played by USC students and alumni in significant events from the Gold Rush period through World War II.

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Kim Matsunaga
kmatsuna@usc.edu