Emigration and immigration

Scope and Contents

The American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born Collection (1939-1944, 1946-1948, 1950, 1955, circa 1959) contains one box and .21 linear feet of mailers; flyers; pamphlets; conference programs and proceedings; press releases; discussion outlines; brochures; and other documents generated by the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, an organization founded in 1933 to defend the rights of foreign born individuals. This collection is organized chronologically.

Abstract

The collection consists of videos produced by various departments from the 1970s to 2006 at the California State University, Dominguez Hills, along with footage about CSUDH produced by television news and other entities. The collection consists of ¾" Tape[20 and 30 minute], [VHS] and [Betamax] medias that includes events videotapes, Faculty Forum Videotapes, Instructional Media Video, Moot Court Videotapes and promotional and publication tapes.

Scope and Contents This collection contains magazines, articles, newspaper clippings, theater programs, flyers, pamphlets, vinyl records, t-shirts, and other material regarding Chicano history. A majority of the material relates to topics such as the Zoot Suit riots; education; the East LA High School Walkouts of 1968; immigration; politics; and other areas of activism regarding the Chicano movement. Some of the material in this collection were featured as part of the Gerth Archives and Special Collections...

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This collection contains one photo album complied by a Japanese Peruvian family in which the photos depict the daily occurances and the people of the Japanese Peruvian community from 1930 to 1950. Most of the items in this collection have been digitized and are available online.

Scope and Contents The Navarro-Dowling Family Collection (1965-1990; undated) contains one box and .21 linear feet with an autobiography written by Lenora Bautista Navarro, a biography about Lenora Bautista Navarro written by Carmen Navarro, letters from Prisca Navarro to Carmen Navarro, letters from Lenora Bautsta Navarro to Prisca Navarro, and an article from The Philippine Educator. Letters discuss domestic and family life; health updates; and information regarding coming to...

Scope and Contents The Norma Tecson/Filipino American Council of San Francisco Collection (1939-2005; undated) contains three boxes and one linear foot of material presumably belonging to Norma Tecson, a former executive director of the Filipino American Employment and Training Center in San Francisco, CA. and includes participation lists, certificates, a brochure, thank you notes, by-laws, memorandums, letters, programs, and other documents mostly related to the Filipino American Council of San Francisco,...