Causa Justa / Just Cause (CJJC) is a membership based organization committed to organizing Bay Area tenants to advocate for fair housing as a basic human right, to fight against community displacement, and to mobilize for policies that produce social...
Contains writings and personal papers, including biographies, photographs and a scrapbook of newsclippings, relating to Margaret Chung and her military "sons" spanning the years from 1933 to 1958. The bulk of the collection, dating from 1942 to 1944 consists of...
was published in San Francisco from Feb. 1900 to 1951. It has a long publishing history and almost all its issues survived.
The collection contains materials related to farmworker organizing and their struggle for labor rights and unionization. The majority of the materials draw from the work of the National Farm Worker Association (NFWA), the United Farm Worker Organizing Committee (UFWOC), Cesar...
Dr. Velia Garcia was a student activist in the Third World Strike at San Francisco State University (SFSU), an early faculty member in Chicano Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, a faculty member and long-time Chair of Raza...
Contains visual research files consisting of photographs and copies of photographs used as reference for newspaper articles focusing on political, social, cultural and community issues that affected the welfare of Asian Americans from 1967 to 1989. Also includes administrative files...
The collection contains Hapa Issues Forum’s history, mission, organization information, correspondence, meeting and retreat materials. The majority of the collection includes annual conference and related conference materials consisting of programs, schedules, committee meeting notes, correspondence, presentation papers, announcements, budget proposals,...
The research files are an addition to (AAS ARC 2000/80) Him Mark Lai's collected sources, along with his writings and professional activity materials. They relate to the history, communities, and organizations of Chinese Americans and Chinese overseas. The collection is...
The Him Mark Lai Papers are divided into four series: Research Files, Professional Activities, Writings, and Personal Papers. Lai's extensive research spans over four decades, with the bulk of materials dating from 1970 to 1995. Although Lai was born and...
The Kem Lee photograph collection, 1927-1986, contains Lee's photographs and other materials in subject files relating to his photojournalistic assignments and business advertisements for San Francisco Chinatown newspapers and includes photographs of the Miss Chinatown USA Pageant, community organizations, political...
The Carlos Muñoz papers contain materials relating to Chicano/Latino and Ethnic Studies, particularly with a focus on Chicano political and social movements. The collection is arranged in five series. Professional activities include biographical information, general correspondence, conference materials, speaking engagements,...
Poetry for the People (P4P) is an arts/activism program, founded by the late June Jordan in 1991. This collection contains administrative records, anthologies, news coverage, video recordings, and other materials related to the content, administration, organization and vision of the...
The Richard and Gloria Santillán Collection – Papers, Documents, Clippings, Newsletters and Journals contains the personal papers and research files of Dr. Richard Santillán, a longtime professor, activist and advocate for the Mexican-American community of California.
SONA (Save OUR National Archives) is a broad consortium of non-profit organizations and individuals dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of public access and services provided by the REGIONAL offices and collections of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)....
The decade(s) long struggle to save the International Hotel (I-Hotel) focused on resisting a looming eviction that would have displaced its mostly elderly and low income Chinese and Filipino residents from the Manilatown neighborhood in San Francisco. This collection contains...
The collection contains general correspondence, mainly with colleagues and students. Correspondence relating to other series are filed with those series: Professional activities, Writings, Teaching, Research files, and Personal papers. The Professional activities materials include Takaki’s numerous lectures and presentations, special...
The Hank M. Tavera Papers, 1952-2000, reflect a lifetime of work as a Chicano, HIV/AIDS, and gay activist; notably, Tavera's role as co-founder of The California and National Latina/o Lesbian and Gay Organization (LLEGO), co-authoring the multi-cultural plan for Dignity,...
The UC Berkeley Department of Ethnic Studies Records contains materials documenting the UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Department from its founding in 1968 – 1969 to the 2010s. Originally composed of four academic disciplines: Afro American Studies, Chicano Studies, Asian American...
The Chicano Studies Program records, 1961-1996 (bulk 1968-1980), provide materials relating to the formation of the program as a result of the Third World Strike student demands in 1969. The collection includes proposals for the Third World College; information on...
Contains personal correspondence, writings, research files, college materials, resumes, employment information, newsclippings featuring Nancy Wey. Her writings include her dissertation on Mu-ch'i and Zen painting, book reviews, East West articles and other papers relating to Asian art, Chinese American history,...
The H.K. Yuen collection features primary multimedia materials on a wide range of historic themes and events set in Berkeley and San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960’s and 1970’s, such as Civil Rights and Black Power, Community Movements, Counter...
The H.K. Yuen collection features primary multimedia materials on a wide range of historic themes and events set in Berkeley and San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960’s and 1970’s, such as Civil Rights and Black Power, Community Movements, Counter...