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Communities Uncovered USC’s latest digital collections highlight the voices that history often overlooks.
Who gets to tell the story of Los Angeles? To share and preserve the region’s vibrant and diverse history, USC Libraries recently completed a three-year project documenting the lived experiences of Black, Jewish, Mexican American, and Asian and Pacific Island American communities in Southern California. With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the university partnered with archivists and volunteers at community organizations in the L.A. as Subject research alliance. In total, 15,755 pages of historical records, 1,000 photographs, 2,000 video recordings and 95 images of cultural objects are now freely accessible on several websites including the USC Digital Library.
The Filipino American Library provided materials that record the Filipino American experience, including contributions during World War II and the community’s growth in Southern California.
The Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum offered material that highlights Mexican American, Chinese American and Japanese American life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This broadside, or ad, from January 1929 highlights the noted baritone Gilberto Soria, one of the troupe who starred in the variety shows that kept audiences entertained.
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