This collection of papers consists mainly of printed material, photos and journal articles pertaining to the work of photographer Laura Aguilar. Included are images of her work with Latinas in Los Angeles and Mexico.

Alturas Films is a film production company based in Emeryville, CA that was founded by Rick Tejada-Flores. The collection consists of material on produced films as well as unrealized projects. There are also office files, and some material on various...

This collection of original artwork from the touring show America en la Mira represents about seventy-five percent of the original works in the show. The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center came to "own" these images by default. The show came...

The American GI Forum of California Collection includes correspondence, ephemera, and organizational papers documenting their activities. These materials offer researchers a lens into the often-difficult reintegration process that veterans undergo following their separation from the armed forces, as well as...

Researchers who would like to indicate errors of fact or omissions in this finding aid can contact the research center at www.chicano.ucla.edu

This collection contains papers, photographs, printed materials, ephemera and realia related to Lupe Anguiano's personal and professional life.

This collection consists of Ralph Arriola's collection of photographs, clippings, ephemera, and books. The predominant subject of the material is the Chicano Moratorium that occurred on August 29, 1970. Other subjects include Ruben Salazer, Robert F. Kennedy, Cesar E. Chavez,...

This collection of papers, film and video relates mainly to the motion picture director Isaac Artenstein's production of Break of Dawn, his biographical film about the life and times of Pedro J. Gonzalez. Researchers who would like to indicate errors...

Founded in 1969, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press was partly responsible for the founding and flowering of Chicano studies in the 1970s—-launching the careers of young academics who could not find mainstream publishers. This collection of materials from...

The Anthony Beltramo Collection includes song sheets, instruction books, and other published materials related to Mexican popular music of the 1950s-1970s. Anthony Beltramo, professor and admirer of Mexican American music and folkore, collected these items over several decades.

Tomas Benitez has decades of experience in the Los Angeles Chicano cultural community. He has served as director of development at Plaza de la Raza and executive director of Self-Help Graphics. He is also a founding member of the Latino...

is a 2002 documentary directed by Nancy de los Santos, Alberto Dominguez, and Susan Racho. The collection consists of interview transcripts and copyright clearances.

This is a collection of Cuba-born bandleader Humberto Cane's various papers, mainly sheet music and other papers related to performances of his band.

This collection of LP records and audio cassette tapes is from the personal collection of Humberto Cane, Cuban born band leader, composer and arranger.

Printed material relating to the Mujeres Activas en Letras Y Cambio Social' Summer Institute and Conferencen.b. Accents have been removed to facilitate the use of most web browsers.Researchers who would like to indicate errors of fact or omissions in this...

CARA was a traveling exhibition of Chicano art curated by the Wight Gallery at UCLA. Opening in 1990, it was a showcase of some 180 works of art (including projected images of murals) produced between 1964-1985 by about 140 Chicano...

CARA was a traveling exhibition of Chicano art curated by the Wight Gallery at UCLA. Opening in 1990, it was a showcase of some 180 works of art (including projected images of murals) produced between 1964-1985 by about 140 Chicano...

Centro de Accion Social Autonoma-Hermandad General de Trabajadores (CASA-HGT), was a Marxist-Leninist / Third World Revolutionary poliitcal organization with a particular emphasis on the unforseen impacts of capitalist globalization. This collection consists of the organization's publications and internal documents.

This collection consists of flyers, correspondence and materials relating to shows and exhibitions the photographer Oscar Castillo has been involved in.

This collection of records consists printed material, mainly Federal Bureau of Investigation intelligence reports on various Chicano organized groups and other organizations. Included in the records is surveillance of the Brown Berets/Youth Chicanos for Community Action, Center for Autonomous Social...

This record collection is part of the Chicano Studies Research Center's overall collection of books and music. It ranges from Mexican Folk Songs, Mariachi, Regional Mexican music, to Chick Corea, Duke Ellington and Chicano pop and rock music Researchers who...

The Women's Unit was created in view of the fact that women of Mexican decent carry the burden of their gender in addition to their racial and class status and that efforts by the CSRC to address and rectify Chicano...

This is a collection of papers, photos and printed materials relating to the Los Angeles Church of the Epiphany in Lincoln Heights, which served as a base for the Chicano Civil Rights Movement and more particularly the organizing efforts of...

This is a collection of papers consisting of the CFLA's agendas, meetings, notes, events, brochures and newsletters. Comision Femenil de Los Angeles, founded in 1970, was primarily concerned with advancing the image, role and contributions of the Chicana to and...

This is a collection of papers consisting of the CFLA's agendas, meetings, notes, events, brochures and newsletters. Comision Femenil de Los Angeles, founded in 1970, was primarily concerned with advancing the image, role and contributions of the Chicana to and...

This is a collection of papers consisting of the CFLA's agendas, meetings, notes, events, brochures and newsletters. Comision Femenil de Los Angeles, founded in 1970, was primarily concerned with advancing the image, role and contributions of the Chicana to and...

Norma Corral was a UCLA librarian who served on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Chicano Studies Research Center. The collection includes material related to librarianship in the Latina/o community.

The Patricia Correia Gallery Collection includes correspondence, ephemera, slides, photographs, organizational papers, and artist books that reflect the gallery's 17 years of documenting, preserving, and exhibiting fine art - with a specific focus on Mexican American artists. Researchers who would...

This collection consists of a small sampling of materials published by Dr. Cruz-Takash and other related papers.

This collection consists of manuscripts, newspaper articles, books, and a scrapbook pertaining to the work of the writer Gil Cuadros, most famous for his collection of short stories, .

Nikki Darling is a Los Angeles writer, whose cultural criticism and essays appear regularly or have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Art Book Review, Tomorrow Magazine and Public Books. As well, she is a columnist at KCET,...

Grace Montanez Davis became politically active in the early 1950s, when she became involved with the Community Service Organization (CSO), a broad-based service organization founded in 1947 by Edward Roybal, Fred Ross, and Saul Alinsky. In 1967 she campaigned for...

Papers related to his work as a journalist pertaining Mexican American issues

Tatiana Barona, also known as Tatiana de la Tierra, was a Latina lesbian activist, artist, writer, and librarian. Born in Colombia in 1961, she immigrated with her family to the United States in 1969. Tatiana was an early pioneer of...

The following is a collection of all the Desegregation files completed from 1976-1983. These files consist of personal notes, index cards, articles, and newspaper clippings. Anything that has to do with the Desegregation issue (with education) will we located in...

This collection of papers represents the creative thought and writing of Adobe LA. Since its founding in 1992 as an activist collaboration of architects, artists and designers, ADOBE LA took the cultural landscape of Los Angeles, particularly that of the...

Paintings, sketches, videos, papers and photographs relating to the career of the Santa Monica-based artist, Alex Donis.

This collection contains the personal papers of Maria Acosta Duran (also known as Maria Duran Lang), a garment worker, political activist, and entrepreneur. It consists of photographs and personal documents. It also includes documents from groups she was active in,...

This is a very small collection of music hall memorabilia of the late 1920s of the attorney and art collector Armando Duron.

This is a collection of approximately 90 newspapers--but they might more accurately be called broadsheets are in Spanish and range in date form 1929 - 1937

Vista en LA is a contemporary, popular music, entertainment magazine aimed at the Latino Spanish speaking audience with wide cross-over English speaking audiences in Southern California. Through the years (mid 1980s to the present day), the magazine has undergone a...

This collection includes court records from the 1970's federal class action lawsuit, Madrigal v. Quilligan, which brought to light the coerced sterilization of Latina women at Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center. The case was brought to court...

This collection includes a broad selection of materials related to the Farmersville Film Project that took place in 1968-1969. The Farmersville Film Project was funded by the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity, inspired by the National Film Board of Canada's...

This collection consists of clippings, press releases, committee records, financial papers and materials related to the Artes de Mexico Festival. Researchers who would like to indicate errors of fact or omissions in this finding aid can contact the research center...

The David Damian Figueroa Papers document his years of philanthropy and advocacy work in civil rights and public policy. His materials also reflect his earlier work in the entertainment industry. The collection includes photographs, correspondence, ephemera, books, periodicals, and audio...

This collection of papers, photos, LP records and three-dimensional objects represents the personal collection of the performance artist Robert Legorreta, also known as Cyclona. Items of special interest include Cyclona's scrapbook and LP record and artifact collection depicting representations of...

Manazar Gamboa was a Chicano poet and playwright who had spent much of his early years in prison. This collection consists of his plays, poems, and writing notes. It also includes research material on Chavez Ravine, the neighborhood where he...

Luis C. Garza (1943-) is a photographer and independent curator living in Los Angeles, CA. He served on the Board of Directors of Plaza de la Raza, worked in a leadership role at Legacy and Legend Producations, and served as...

This is a collection of artifacts made by students to honor those women murdered in Juarez, Mexico in what has become known as the Maquiladora Murders. Researchers who would like to indicate errors of fact or omissions in this finding...

is a University of California, Los Angeles news magazine publication that focuses on Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Native American youth in Los Angeles as its main readership. It is a bilingual publication put together by UCLA students in an effort...

A telegraph operator for Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution; a radio personality and popular recording artist in Los Angeles; an immigration activist framed for political purposes and sent to San Quentin prison; and finally, a man fighting for the...

Born in Bakersfield, California on July 18, 1970, and raised in Michoacán, Mexico, he is the son and grandson of migrant farmworkers, both parents now deceased. His extended family migrated back to California in 1980 and returned to Mexico in...

This collection of papers represents Griswold del Castillo's 34 years of teaching, research and writing.

The Gronk Papers include a diverse range of materials that span the entirety of Gronk's career, from approximately 1969 to 2007. These include materials related to his work with Asco, his collaborative works and correspondence with artist Jerry Dreva, documentation...

The Dan Guerrero Papers include ephemera, press kits, clippings, photographs, and audiovisual materials documenting Mr. Guerrero's successful career as a Chicano activist, producer, and performance artist. Also included are materials reflecting the life and career of his father Lalo Guerrero...

Rubén Funkahuátl Guevara is a singer, songwriter, producer, writer, poet, performance artist, and impresario. He made his mark in music with his 1970s band Ruben & the Jets, who recorded two albums on the Mercury Record label, the first produced...

Papers, photocopies, photographs, and printed materials related to the art and editorial work of Guillermo Bejarano.

Collection of articles about Ester Hernandez and her artwork. Collection includes various post cards, gallery cards and other Illustrations of Hernandez's art.

Guillermo E. Hernández, was a professor in the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese; former CSRC Director; and a leading scholar on corridos, or Mexican ballads, and Chicano literature. This is his collection of oral histories generated by his students...

This collection of papers represents the research material Kelly Lytle Hernandez used for her book: (University of California Press, 2010). The book is a history and analysis of the U.S. Border Patrol and how it polices unsanctioned immigration across the...

In providing employment services, Homeboy targets and focuses on the segment of the community that finds it the most difficult to secure employment on their own -- former gang members, parolees, and at-risk youth. Programs offer a much-needed intervention to...

This collection consists of flyers, memos, notes, form letters, faxes and photographs that document the events that occurred during the spring of 1993 when several students and one professor began a hunger strike to protest the decision of Chancellor Charles...

The Latino Eligibility Study, began in 1992 and was created to develop a clear understanding of the issues associated with the rate of Latino enrollment in higher education. It examined and assessed existing research and programs within and outside the...

The Latino Eligibility Study, began in 1992 and was created to develop a clear understanding of the issues associated with the rate of Latino enrollment in higher education. It examined and assessed existing research and programs within and outside the...

The IUPLR was formally established in 1983 as a national consortium of university-based centers devoted to developing and promoting Latino scholarship. As of 2019, it has twenty-four member institutions dedicated to interdisciplinary research about, and of interest to, the Latino...

La Opinión documents local, national, and worldwide events from a perspective outside the dominant US narrative. It is currently compromises 147 linear feet of albums, compact discs, reader correspondence, film, internal files, negatives, newspaper articles and clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and...

This collection includes digitized issues of the La Raza newspaper and magazine that ran from 1967-1977.

Manuscripts, videos, administrative papers, and photographs related to the Los Angeles-based Center Theatre Group and its Latino Theater Initiative.

Dennis E. Leoni is the creator and producer of , a dramatic television series that ran on Showtime for three seasons from 2000-2002. This collection consists of scripts, production books, schedules and call sheets, memos, correspondence, resumes, head shots, art...

A collection of memoranda, correspondence, research analysis and other papers related to the Latino Eligibility Study.To Facilitate the use of all types of web browsers, accents have been omitted.Researchers who would like to indicate errors of fact or omissions in...

This collection consists of Lopez's research materials on health, education and various other issues of social importance in the lives of Chicanos and Latinos in the United States. There are also many examples of his own writings.

This collection consists mostly of materials gathered by Ron Lopez for his research into the Sleepy Lagoon murder case.

Mimi Lozano Holtzman is a genealogy enthusiast, educator, and puppeteer. Most of the collection reflects her interest in genealogy and her role as a co-founder of the Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research and editor of its journal, ....

This collection consists of the personal papers of actress Masaiela Lusha. It includes correspondence, photographs, publicity material, and books. There is also some artwork by Lusha, as well as clothing and realia.

This collection consists of 11 original cassette interviews and CD duplicates. Researchers who would like to indicate errors of fact or omissions in this finding aid can contact the research center at www.chicano.ucla.edu

The Mark Santarelli and Linda Arreola Collection of Magú Materials consists of items related to the short film documenting the art and activism of Gilbert "Magú" Luján. Materials date roughly from 1999 to 2004. This collection includes audiovisual materials, electronic...

This collection contains material on the lives of James and Margarita Mendez. It consists of photographs, printed matter, memorabilia, correspondence, and realia. It includes material on Garfield and Roosevelt High Schools, the foreced relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the...

This collection of over 2000 vinyl records represents the collected music of educator and dance hall impresario Candelario Mendoza.

The Mexican American Bar Association (MABA) was founded in 1959 by a group of Mexican American attorneys who saw the need to create an organization committed to empowering and educating the Latino community. It is one of the most prominent...

This collection from the the Mexican Cultural Institute consists of the administrative papers, internal executive papers, exhibit and program information, materials related to cross cultural programs and events and materials related to educational programs.This collection has not been well detailed....

The collection consists of papers related to two films by filmmaker Luis Meza, the short (1986) and his feature film (1996). Various work prints, Beta tapes, VHS tapes, final film prints and screening cassettes are also a part of the...

The Mexican Folk Narrative project was the result of Elaine K. Miller's PhD dissertation. With the aid of the distinguished scholar in the field of Hispanic folklore, Dr. Stanley Robe, Ms. Miller developed a dissertation proposal that involved collecting, annotating,...

Museo del Barrio cofounder Raphael Montanez Ortiz is a multi media artist who gained recognition at the vanguard of the Destructivist movement of the mid 1960s with his manifestos and piano destruction performances. He is also known for his pioneering...

This collection of approximately 28 linear feet of papers represents the background research underlying Dr. Joan Moore's groundbreaking books and research studies. Chief among them are her books: (Temple University Press, 1979) and (Temple University Press, 1992) Both of which...

The Magdalena Mora Scholarship is made available annually to incoming, eligible, University of California Chicana / Latina students.This collection consists primarily of student scholarship applications and faculty evaluations between 1986 - 1989 and related papers.To Facilitate the use of all...

In 1963 Dionicio Morales, the son of Mexican American farmworkers, founded the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation (MAOF) in East Los Angeles to better the lives of Mexican American families by providing services such as education and job training. MAOF has...

Collection consists of correspondence, newspapers, and research materials related to Mexican Americans in education, bilingual education and other social and political issues predominantly in California. Research materials include government publications, scholarship, reports and studies, conference materials, educational materials and other...

This collection of papers consists of newsletters, meeting agendas, and photos of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS), a national organization of Chicanas/ Latinas and Native American women and gender non-conforming academics, students, and activists.

This collection of papers consists of newsletters, meeting agendas, and photos of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS), a national organization of Chicanas/ Latinas and Native American women and gender non-conforming academics, students, and activists.

This collection consists of papers created and collected by Rosalio Munoz regarding his involvement in the Chicano Movement and related organizations from the late 1960s to the 2010s. It also has material on his family, particularly his father, Rosalio F....

Ricardo Muñoz was a Los Angeles lawyer and later an administrative law judge with the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. His collection includes photographs, sound recordings, correspondence, and personal papers that document his family history, and organizational papers that reflect...

This collection represents a broad selection of the internal papers of the Mexican Museum of San Francisco. Subjects covered include curatorial papers, exhibition materials, administrative papers, educational projects as well as future plans for the museum.**Please note that accents have...

This collection contains surveys, administrative records, and research papers related to the National Chicano Survey conducted by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan in 1979.

Julian Nava's career has combined civic involvement and teaching in the United States and in Venezuela, Colombia, Puerto Rico, and Spain. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico—he was the first Mexican American appointed to this position—and on the...

The personal book Collection donated to UCLA by dramatist, writer and teacher, Josephina Niggli.n.b. Accents have been removed to facilitate the use of most web browsers.Researchers who would like to indicate errors of fact or omissions in this finding aid...

This collection consists of the papers and audio cassettes collected and created by journalist and talk show host Joe Ortiz. This collection also contains the papers related to Mr. Ortiz's successful public relations company, Joe Ortiz Associates.

This is a small collection donated by Lorena Parlee's mother to the Center in 2007. It consists of LP records, color slides and papers related to her films, Mexico and Break of Dawn.

A telegraph operator for Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution; a radio personality and popular recording artist in Los Angeles; an immigration activist framed for political purposes and sent to San Quentin prison; and finally, a man fighting for the...

This collection represents both Plaza de la Raza's administrative records as well as a record of its students' artistic output. Situated in the century-old Lincoln Park, Plaza de la Raza is the only multidisciplinary cultural arts center serving Latinos in...

Elena I. Popp is an attorney and activist who has worked for several decades on behalf of social justice and change. She has worked on issues related to housing/tenants rights, the Peace movement, domestic violence, outreach to the homeless, slum...

Queer Nation was a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) grassroots local organization first established in New York, which then proliferated into many other chapters across the country including: Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Houston. The organization was well-known...

This is a collection of slides and papers of the artist and activist, Cory Roberts-Auli. Researchers who would like to indicate errors of fact or omissions in this finding aid can contact the research center at www.chicano.ucla.edu

This is a collection of approximately four linear feet of papers relating to Diane Rodriguez's career with the Center Theater Group's Latino Theater Initiative as well as her work as a leader in the creative community and as an actor.

Peter Rodriguez was raised in both Stockton and Jackson, California. It was there that he first became interested in Art. In 1975, he founded the Mexican Museum as an institution designed to collect, preserve, interpret and present the artistic expression...

The collection consists of historical photographs, correspondence, and personal and organizational papers reflecting Edward Roybal's family history and years of public service as a Los Angeles City Councilman and U.S. Congressman. Researchers who would like to indicate errors of fact...

This collection represents the youthful collection of 78 rpm record of both Spanish language cancions and corridos as well American pop music of the era. All are in excellent condition. Researchers who would like to indicate errors of fact or...

This collection consists of the dramatist and dramaturge Paulina Sahagun's collection of Latin American and Chicano theater papers, specifically the papers of TENAZ (Teatros Nacionales de Aztlan) and CARA (Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation).

David John Sanchez was born and raised in East Los Angeles. As a founding member of the Brown Berets, Sanchez was heavily involved with the Chicano civil and political movements of the late 1960s and 1970s. The collection consists of...

This collection consists of Jose Luis's collection of family history: Papers, photos, clippings, ephemera.This collection can serve as an excellent example of the experience of Mexican immigration into the U.S. Southwest in the 1930s - 1940s. It is well documented...

The collection consists largely of material relating to exhibitions put on by the organization, as well as a small number of administrative files. There are also audio-visual materials apparently related to a variety of community initiatives, though these will require...

Francesco X. Siqueiros is an arts educator, print maker and publisher. This collection consists of his spiral journals and a collection of handwritten notes that correspond to Wassily Kandinsky's . There are also open reel audio tapes from his Seattle-based...

The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) was founded in 1969 with a commitment to foster multidisciplinary research efforts as part of the land grant mission of the University of California . That mission states that University of California research...

This collection contains material related to James Tartan's short films about Chicano artists.

Writer and journalist Héctor Tobar's archive includes original newspapers and clippings from 1989-2010 from The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Book Review, LA Weekly, The Guardian, Twanas Press (The Third World and Native American Press Collective at University...

Esteban Torres served eight terms in the United States House of Representatives as the Congressman for southeastern Los Angeles County. Prior to that he was an activist and labor organizer, the United States ambassador to UNESCO, and Special Assistant to...

This is a collection of approximately 600 color slides of Chicano / Raza oriented murals primarily situated in East Los Angles were photographed by Nancy Tovar in the 1970s. Researchers who would like to indicate errors of fact or omissions...

This collection consists of a self produced portfolio of reproductions Ms. Vallejo's works: A Prayer for the Earth HOPE, in the Midst of War, Death and Destruction Nature and Spirit Los Cielos Tree People

This collection consists of a wide variety of rare small press Chicano and Latino themed newspapers mainly published between the late 1960s through the mid 1970s. The following are examples nespapers in this collection:La GenteLa VerdadUCLA Daily BruinVencerenosEl TecoloteLa RazaPalantePrensa...

This is a research collection of papers and notes on sterilization, fertility, and eugenics. It also contains material on Madrigal v. Quilligan, a 1978 lawsuit brought by ten Mexican-American women who had been sterilized without their informed consent. Most of...

VIVA, Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists, was a non-profit arts agency founded in 1987 for the purpose of promoting the creative and artistic talent of Lesbians, Gays, Latina and Latino artists and their culture. Based in Los Angeles, VIVA was...

The collection consists of newspapers, correspondence, flyers, and magazines collected by Devra Weber from the 1960's to the 1970's. The material primarily pertains to the Chicano Moratorium, Ruben Salazar, the Labor Movement, the Chicana/o Movement, women's issues, education, prisons, and...

This collection consists of small magazines, also known as 'Zines. They are on a range of topics but all within the heading of Chicano Studies. They were hand crafted by the students of Professors Maylei Blackwell and Genevieve Carpio in...