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Compton Maps, Photo Calendar 2009 and Project Digital Photos (2002)

 Sub-Series

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

This series contains proposals, emails, articles, pamphlets, memorandums, presentations, reports regarding redevelopment and housing, meeting minutes, census data, maps, photographs, police department reports, notes, studies, and other documents regarding Compton, California in relation to Compton history projects led by Albert and Jeffrey Camarillo including pilot projects and proposals for "Perspectives on Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Changes in Urban America: Compton and South Central Los Angeles, 1950s-1990s" By Albert Camarillo, "What Really Happened in Compton? The Effects of Racial and Ethnic Transformation on Urban Politics, Economics, Education, Crime, and Inter-Group Relations" by Jeffrey Camarillo, and emails, contact lists, and other material related to a Compton Oral History Project led by Albert Camarillo (for more material related to the Compton Oral History Project see Series II). Also included in this series are materials related to the Compton Teen Mural Leadership Institute; material related to a Serna v. Eastin court case; copies of articles authored by Albert Camarillo such as: "Chicano Urban History: A Study of Compton's Barrio","Cities of Color: The New Racial Frontier in California's Minority- Majority Cities", "Black and Brown in Compton: Demographic Change, Suburban Decline, and Intergroup Relations in a South Central Los Angeles Community 1950-2000", "Navigating Segregated Life in America's Radical Borderhoods 1910s-1950s", and others.

Dates

  • 1890, 1925-2013; undated

Conditions Governing Access

There are no access restrictions on this collection; except where notated at file level.

Oral History Interview- Access

Please contact the Gerth Archives and Special Collections for access to oral history interview files.

Extent

From the Collection: 5 boxes

From the Collection: 4.42 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections Repository

Contact:
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