Tom & Ethel Bradley Center
Charles Williams Online Collection
Harry Adams Online Collection
Guy Crowder Online Collection
Richard Cross Online Collection
Julián Cardona Collection
Educational Resources
Black Power Archives Oral History Project
Oral History Program
Border Studies

We are excited to announce the recent release of videos in The Black Power Archives Oral History Project, a collection of oral histories documenting the experiences of Black Power activists in Los Angeles. We invite you to explore The Black Power Archives.
The Tom & Ethel Bradley Center is proud to announce that it has been awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities to work on a new digitization project on the Farmworker Movement Collection. This video presents a small selection of the 22,000 photographs on the farmworker movement by photographers John Kouns and Emmon Clarke. These images are part of our photographic collections. Thanks to this new NEH grant, the Center will be able to properly preserve, digitized, and make more of these images available to the public. #NEHGrant
Afro-Tradition, Environmental Racism, and Black Place-Making in Mexico. Friday, February 5, 2021. Q&A with filmmaker Ebony Bailey about her documentary "Jamaica and Tamarindo: Afro-Tradition in the Heart of Mexico," followed by the panel discussion, “Environmental Racism, Gender, and Black Place-Making in Mexico's Costa Chica,” with Ebony Bailey, Historian Jayson Maurice Porter, and Anthropologist Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez. Event: February 5, 2021. California State University, Northridge. Watch it here:
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 University Library have added over 5,000 images to the Charles Williams collection online!