online exhibition 

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 

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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

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Designed by Samantha Sanchez