The organization was founded in 1972 by a small group of Midwestern scholars in order to bring together educators interested in an interdisciplinary approach to the national and international dimensions of ethnicity. They supported student activism on colleges and universities in order to increase the number of minority students and teachers on campuses and to promote the development of curricula responsive to the needs of communities of color.

This organization was founded in 1967 by a group of Chicanos and Chicanas who were dedicated to improving the quality of life for Mexican Americans living in Arizona. The Southwest Council of La Raza (later the National Council of La Raza) made an initial investment in the group, which quickly developed bilingual housing referral services for lower income communities in South and Central Phoenix.

Small manuscripts, newspapers clippings, newsletters, biographies, broadsides, reports, photographs, etc.

Small manuscripts, newspapers clippings, newsletters, biographies, broadsides, reports, photographs, etc.

Digitized material from the Chicano/a Research Collection

Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech entitled "Religious Witness for Human Dignity" presented at Goodwin Stadium, Arizona State University on June 3, 1964. Introduction by ASU President G. Homer Durham. This recording is followed by a brief recording of King's remarks to NAACP supporters at the Tanner AME Church in Phoenix earlier in the same day.

The interviews focus on the history of Maricopa Tribe. Special discussion about education at both Phoenix Indian School and Sherman Institute in Riverside, California, World War II military exploits, community activities, and children's stories.

Reports on African American, Native American, Asian American and Latino communities in Arizona.

Provides access to digitized archival material.

Provides access to maps of towns and cities in Arizona.

Provides access to news coverage of significant events.

Provides access to rare material focusing on historical American attitudes towards gender roles and relations, American consumerism, class relations, race, citizenship, education, work, sex, life cycles, family, and religion.

Contains 1000 plays by more than 170 playwrights. Also, has playbills, production photographs, and other ephemera related to the plays.

Features interviews of civil rights leaders conducted for Robert Penn Warren's seminal book "Who Speaks for the Negro."

Provides access to a collection of documents, images, and links to other websites.

Provides access to digitized Arizona historical newspapers.

Provides access to Mexican and Mexican American newspapers published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s. Written in English and Spanish.

Provides access to Spanish-English newspapers printed in U.S.

Provides access to independent newspapers, magazines, and journals.

Provides access to articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press.

Provides access to nearly 250 journals.

Provides access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences.

Highlights the history of Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC).

Chronicles the life of Dennis Banks, the Native American who co-founded the American Indian Movement (AIM) in 1968.

Documentary on the history of Chinese Americans in Arizona.