Primary Sources

Primary sources provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence on a subject.  They are created by someone who experienced the period or event first hand.  Diaries, letters, oral histories, photographs, posters and pamphlets are all examples of primary sources.

Black and white photograph of 6 male and 3 female defendents from the 1944 Sleep Lagoon trial

Photograph of Sleepy Lagoon Defendents Links to an external site., 1944.  

Book cover with photo of Corky Gonzales and children

Message to Aztlán:  Selected Writings of Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales Links to an external site.

Read and black poster about boycotting Safeway to support the United Farm Worker strike

¡Huelga! Links to an external site.  Rupert Garcia, 1969

Informational pamphlet about the Brown Berets

Brown Berets:  To Serve, Observe, & Protect Links to an external site. 

Primary Sources:  Databases

Digital Collections


"Sleepy Lagoon Defendents Links to an external site.."  UCLA Library Special Collections, 1944.

Gonzales, Rodolpho. Message to Aztlán: Selected Writings of Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales Links to an external site.. Arte Público Press, 2001. eBook Collection.

Garcia, Rupert, 1941-1969. ¡Huelga! Links to an external site.Artstor.

"Brown Berets:  To Serve, Observe, and Protect Links to an external site.." UCLA Library Special Collections.