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Evaristo Martinez interviews his mother, Feliciana Castañeda about her experiences growing up as a child in Veracruz and her immigration to the U.S. as an adult. Castañeda is an epileptic and she describes her struggles of obtaining…

Mervyn M. Dymally sends a telegram to Louis Martin, Deputy Director of the Democratic National Committee in protest of President Lyndon B. Johnson's lack of people of color in his delegation, more specifically, "Negros and Mexican Americans". In…

This is a series of letters written between Dymally and Martha G. Geesa, Program Officer in the Division for Americans Abroad of the US State Department, in summer 1964. The letters discussed travel fees to various countries in Southern and Eastern…

This aerial photo depicts the collapsed overpasses of the Newhall Pass Interchange near Sylmar, CA, a result of the 1971 San Fernando-Sylmar earthquake. The Interstate freeways 5 and 14 were damaged in numerous places, including several connectors…

At a Granada Hills market, previously located at 18045 Chatsworth Street, clerk Merlin Saunders begins the arduous task of cleaning up the tremendous mess left by the 1971 San Fernando earthquake. Boxes and cans of food were knocked from shelves by…

Discusses how a local boba shop has created incentives involving face masks donations towards healthcare workers.