California State University, Northridge, Tom and Ethel Bradley Center Collections

The Black Power Oral History Project Collection consists of oral histories documenting the experiences of Black Power activists in Los Angeles during the twentieth century.

The Emmon M. Clarke Farmworker Photograph Collection contains negatives, prints, and contact sheets documenting the United Farm Workers Association's activities, such as picket lines, protests, rallies, meetings, voting, fundraising, and operations at the El Malcriado newspaper office. It also depicts families in farmworker camps, fieldworkers, significant labor leaders and picketers such as Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and Manuel Rivera, and members and performances of El Teatro Campesino. Other materials include a publication and a portfolio of prints by photographer Jon Lewis. Bulk dates are 1966 and 1967.

The Bob Douglas Jazz Photograph Collection features black-and-white photography of jazz performances in Los Angeles, California and Detroit, Michigan from the 1940s to the 1990s. Images capture several prominent jazz musicians and singers, such as Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, and Dexter Gordon. It also documents Douglas's professional and exhibit history as well as a portrait of Bob Douglas. The small collection consists largely of prints as well as contact sheets, slides, one negative, exhibit ephemera, multiple drafts of image indexes, Bob Douglas's resume, and a poster.

Katherine Banfield Higgins was a missionary worker for La Plaza United Methodist Church and Community Center in downtown Los Angeles, California. The Katherine B. Higgins Photograph Collection documents her personal life, her career, and her travels during the first half of the twentieth century. Locations are mostly in southern California and also include Minnesota, Indiana, and Lake Tahoe. The collection also documents her role in the founding of Goodwill Southern California. The emphasis of the collection is on her family, her colleagues in the field of social work, the Latin American families that she helped, and professional and personal activities at places such as residences, the beach, and the Spanish-American Institute. Higgins began her work in Los Angeles in 1915 and retired in 1949. The collection consists of two photograph albums, small prints, cabinet cards, cartes de visite, and a shawl owned by Katherine Higgins. Dates span from the 1870s to the 1960s.

In May 1963, David LaBriere was a white college student from Ohio visiting Los Angeles. On May 26, he attended and photographed the Freedom Rally, a large civil rights rally and fundraising event, at Wrigley Field in South-Central L.A. The collection contains 14 slides and 10 images from 35mm negative film.

Hassina and Deeptha Leelarathna founded the first Sri Lankan newspaper in the United States. Founded in 1978, the paper, Sri Lankan Express, served as a voice for the Sri Lankan diaspora, and reported on everything from the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka to the issues being faced by the Sri Lankan communities in the U.S. Committed to serving their community, the pair also hosted a weekly two-hour radio program in Sinhalese and English titled Tharanga. After Deeptha's death in 2006, Hassina continued to run the newspaper until her death in 2021. The collection features color slides of images from the Leelarathnas' personal lives, before and after the start of the newspaper, as well as images documenting their travels and reporting in Sri Lanka from 1977 to 1988.

The Denise L. McIver Black Lives Matter Protest Posters Collection consists of posters, notes, a flyer, and a sign that document the Black Lives Matters protests in Hollywood, California, from May to July 2020. Posters were created by multiple protestors and the materials were collected by Denise L. McIver, a research librarian at California African American Museum, during the protests.

The collection consists of digital images and videos created by Keith Rice, a historian/archivist at California State University, Northridge, and Taylor Walker, his granddaughter, as well as posters used during protests for Black Lives Matter in 2020 and 2021. It documents demonstrations demanding racial equality amid ongoing systemic racism, and confrontations with counter protesters and the police during the COVID-19 pandemic in Southern California.

The collection consists of digital images and videos created by Nicholas Soracco from two days of protesting in Sunland, California for Black Lives Matter in 2020. It documents demonstrations demanding racial equality amid ongoing systemic racism, and confrontations with counter protesters and the police during the COVID-19 pandemic. Soracco was born in 1978 and he grew up in Northern California.

Fred Hardon interviewed Malcolm X, a human rights activist and Black religious and nationalist leader, at Hardon's home in 1963. It aired on the radio station KTYM 103.9 FM. Interview topics include equal rights for Black people in a white-controlled society, Nation of Islam beliefs, criticism of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s approach, and discussion of the 1963 Los Angeles trial regarding the April 27, 1962 Los Angeles Police Department shooting of several Nation of Islam members and the murder of Ronald Stokes. The collection contains one sound recording migrated from reel-to-reel tape.