La Raza Newspaper & Magazine Records: Providing Access to the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
Item
Title
La Raza Newspaper & Magazine Records: Providing Access to the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
Description
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.
Program
Date
Temporal Coverage
1967 - 1977
Spatial Coverage
This project documents the experiences of Mexican Americans living in Los Angeles and across the American Southwest.
Extent
24698 Image
Institution
Applicant Unit
Identifier
PI2 Institution
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
PI2 Name
Ms. Lizette Guerra
Primary Contact
Dr. Chon Noriega
Request
$148,021