The Start
The Raids
Blaming
Fighting Back!
Disposable People
Stories + Legacies
Images Courtesy of
California Immigration Youth Coalition
David Sankey and Araceli Cruz Belz, 2017. Teen Vogue.
Dorothea Lange, Farm Security Administration- Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress
George Pigeon Clements Papers (Collection 118). Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
The Gonzalez Family Personal Collection
Herald Examiner Collection, Los Angeles Public Library
Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles Photograph Collection, Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) Project Files, Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
Jack Iwata photograph, 1942. Japanese American National Museum (Gift of Jack and Peggy Iwata, 93.102.102)
Judy Baca
La Opinion Microfilm Collection, East Los Angeles Library
Lani Cupchoy
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives, Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive, Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California at Los Angeles
Mexican American Oral History Project, The Lawrence de Graaf Center for Oral and Public History, California State University, Fullerton
National Archives
Pedro J. Gonzalez Papers, Chicano Studies Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles
Shades of LA: Mexican Community Collection, Los Angeles Public Library
Shades of LA: Jewish Community Collection, Los Angeles Public Library
Work Progress Administration Collection, Los Angeles Public Library
Special Thank you to
Judy Baca
Margie Brown-Coronel
Alejandro Covarrubias
Lani Cupchoy
Xaviera Flores
Yolanda Gonzalez and the Gonzalez Family
Jamie Henricks
Daniel Hernandez
Giao Luong Baker
Alejandra Marchevsky
Margaret Salazar-Porzio
Claudia Reuda and the Reuda Family
Barbara Robinson
Sonia Rodriguez
Xochitl Oliva
Frank Velasco and the team at Mitchell Publishing
Michele Welsing
Our family and friends and the community of Boyle Heights Boyle Heights Museum
Curator
George Sanchez
Co-Curators
Michelle Vasquez
Yesenia Navarrete Hunter
Priscilla Leiva
Mike Mazon
Contributors
Brittany Aquino
Yaneiry Barrios
Matthew Carrera
Jimmy Centeno
Alejandra Franco
Karla Hernandez
Karen Kwon
Kathy Pulupa
Ivonne Rodriguez
Designed by Samantha Sanchez