Reagan's speech to open the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic games.

A news report of the Varsity Blues scandal at USC in 2019.

This is a sound of the Los Angeles Olympics official theme.

Fans welcome the lighting of the torch after the last runner brings it to the coliseum.

Protests On Tommy Trojan following the major protests of the 2014 Michael Brown shooting. These inspired USC students continued the Missouri based protests on campus as LA riots surfaced.

Custodians protest on campus, demanding better conditions (fragment from Annenberg media).

USC Students protest speaker Ben Shapiro as he is on a college tour. Protesters and supporters of Shapiro attended the event (From Canyons News YouTube channel).

How the LA riots sparked activism in black communities both on and surrounding USC's campus.

1958 - USC establishes the first schools in the United States for Cinema-Television, Gerontology and Urban Planning & Development. The cinema-television department would later come to rank as the No.1 film school in the U.S., consistently producing Academy Award winners or nominees year after year.

1964 — MLK speaks out against Proposition 14 in the “Religious Witness for Human Dignity” event, discussing the suffering African Americans faced at the time.

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