Tom & Ethel Bradley Center
Memory, Culture, and Identity in El Salvador
Two New Digital Exhibitions
Charles Williams Online Collection
Harry Adams Online Collection
Monomania: Kent Kirkton and Images of Black L.A.
Oral History Program
Border Studies
Julián Cardona Collection
The Tom & Ethel Bradley Center at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) is the proud recipient of a $315,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for the creation of a digital database of the Richard Cross (1950–1983) Photographic Collection.
The Tom & Ethel Bradley Center has over one million images produced by Los Angeles-based photographers that document the social, cultural and political lives of the diverse communities of Los Angeles and the Southern California region between the 1910s and the present. The archives contain one of the largest collections of African American photographers west of the Mississippi and the most extensive collection in Southern California.
In addition are the collections of Edward Alfano; David Blumenkrantz, documenting various regions of Africa; Herb Carleton, covering the San Fernando Valley; Emmon Clarke, containing extensive documentation of the United Farmworkers organization and César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, Gibert Padilla, Luis Valdez and other leaders of the union and its members; and Richard Cross, that documents the wars in El Salvador and Honduras, the Afro-Columbian community Palenque de San Basilio (near Cartagena), Cuba, the Masai and the Maya refugee camps in Mexico.
The Bradley Center has a Border Studies Collection that examines the issues surrounding the border between the United States and Mexico. Through photographic collections, oral histories, manuscripts, videos, newspaper archives and guest lectures issues such as immigration, human rights, globalization, and economic violence are examined.
New Additions
The Bradley Center and Oviatt Library have added over 5,000 images to the Charlies Williams collection online!
