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Title
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La Raza Newspaper & Magazine Records: Providing Access to the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
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Description
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This three-year project will catalog a collection of 24,698 photographic negatives documenting the Mexican-descent community of Los Angeles between 1967 and 1977. These long inaccessible negatives were recovered in 2013, and represent an unprecedented decade-long photographic project involving eighteen photographers associated with La Raza. The bilingual publication-a tabloid newspaper from 1967-1970 and a magazine from 1970-1977-developed in the context of community-based journalism that sought broad documentation of events, achievements, and issues reflecting readers' lives. Since La Raza could only print a small portion of photographs, this collection constitutes a rare and broad visual record of the community during this period.
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Program
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Digitizing Hidden Collections
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Date
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2014
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Temporal Coverage
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1967 - 1977
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Spatial Coverage
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This project documents the experiences of Mexican Americans living in Los Angeles and across the American Southwest.
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Extent
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24698 Image
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Institution
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The Regents of the University of California
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Applicant Unit
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UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
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Identifier
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12990430
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PI2 Institution
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UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
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PI2 Name
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Ms. Lizette Guerra
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Primary Contact
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Dr. Chon Noriega
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Request
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$148,021
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Was Funded
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True