Los Angeles (Calif.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
Grace Montanez Davis Papers
Collection
Identifier: 39
Abstract
Grace Montanez Davis became politically active in the early 1950s, when she became involved with the Community Service Organization (CSO), a broad-based service organization founded in 1947 by Edward Roybal, Fred Ross, and Saul Alinsky. In 1967 she campaigned for Julian Nava, the first Latino elected to the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education. In 1973 Montanez Davis was recruited by Mayor Tom Bradley to be his director of human resources, and in August 1975 Montanez Davis...
Dates:
1940 - 1990
Found in:
Chicano Studies Research Center Library
Ulises Diaz Adobe LA Archive
Collection
Identifier: CSRC-0093
Abstract
This collection of papers represents the creative thought and writing of Adobe LA. Since its founding in 1992 as an activist collaboration of architects, artists and designers, ADOBE LA took the cultural landscape of Los Angeles, particularly that of the Latin American community as the point of departure for projects that addressed the values of Los Angeles' evolving multicultural population. The mission of ADOBE LA was to create and produce public art and architecture, create a discourse...
Dates:
1939 - 2002
Found in:
Chicano Studies Research Center Library
La Raza Publication Records
Collection
Identifier: CSRC-1001
Abstract
This collection includes digitized issues of the La Raza newspaper and magazine that ran from 1967-1977.
Dates:
1967-1977
Found in:
Chicano Studies Research Center Library