South Central L.A. residents gather on a street corner to ask fellow residents to stop the violence. Where authorities have failed over 30 years to rebuild what was lost, multi-racial organizing has succeeded in leading progressive change. “And so the campaign then shifted to rebuild South L.A. without liquor stores,” she adds. Initially headed by a White corporate executive from neighboring Orange County named Peter Ueberroth, Rebuild L.A. seemed doomed from the start. “In 1992, South L.A., Koreatown burned down,” says Chang.