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The collection consists of mostly visual documentation created by David Blumenkrantz, an educator, artist, and photojournalist, of several projects and of professional and personal experiences in Africa, China, and Los Angeles. Materials include born-digital images, scanned images, videos, interviews, transcripts, negatives, contact sheets, slides, notes, audiocassettes, and a thesis abstract.

Abstract Founded in 1947 by Fred Ross Sr., Edward Roybal, and Anthony Rios, the Community Service Organization (known as the CSO) was a grass-roots civic-action organization led by its membership. The goal of the organization was to empower community members to become civically engaged to improve their lives and fight for social justice. The CSO began in East Los Angeles focusing on the Latino and Mexican-American communities, and then expanded with Chapters across California. The collection...

Abstract James Wesley Jeffrey, Jr. was a Black photographer born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1945 who lived most of his life in Los Angeles. For most of his career he worked as a commercial photographer but also shot documentary and fine art photography for special projects and exhibits. The collection primarily consists of negatives (predominantly black-and-white 35mm and 120mm), contact sheets, slides, color transparencies (predominantly 4x5), prints, audiovisual materials, ephemera, proposals,...

Abstract The Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, Community Relations Committee Collection, Part 4, documents the CRC’s activities primarily from 1950 to the late 1970s. CRC continued to function as the Public Relations arm of the organized Jewish community. This collection documents the CRC’s activities mostly under the leadership of Joseph Roos, until his retirement in 1969, and Charles Posner, as well as a smaller number of files from later leadership. It documents the committee's...

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The collection consists of digital images and videos created by Keith Rice, a historian/archivist at California State University, Northridge, and Taylor Walker, his granddaughter, as well as posters used during protests for Black Lives Matter in 2020 and 2021. It documents demonstrations demanding racial equality amid ongoing systemic racism, and confrontations with counter protesters and the police during the COVID-19 pandemic in Southern California.

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The collection consists of digital images and videos created by Nicholas Soracco from two days of protesting in Sunland, California for Black Lives Matter in 2020. It documents demonstrations demanding racial equality amid ongoing systemic racism, and confrontations with counter protesters and the police during the COVID-19 pandemic. Soracco was born in 1978 and he grew up in Northern California.

Abstract The Westland School is a private elementary school founded in 1949 by Lory Titelman, and Marie H. Briehl. The guiding philosophy of the School is based on the concepts of John Dewey and Progressive education, a pedagogical movement that began in the late nineteenth century. The Westland School Collection broadly documents a re-emergence of the progressive education movement, focusing on its development between 1949 and 2014 in Los Angeles, California. The...