L.A. African American Oral History Project

Cliff Johnson

Cliff Johson grew up in Abilene, Texas in a working-class, segregated Black community. He attended Carter G. Woodson Junior Senior high school where he was an honor student and class president. At twelve years old, after being given a tour of the bank where his mother worked as a cook, Cliff decided that he wanted […]

Judge Dion G. Morrow

The Honorable Dion G. Morrow Judge Dion G. Morrow was born in Los Angeles, Ca. in 1932. Growing up, Dion and his family were heavily involved in their family’s church, Second Baptist Church. Dion loved reading books in the church library and often snuck off to read during his mother’s choir rehearsals. Dion was a […]