Various artists, political figures (politicos) and a wide variety of topical themes from agriculture to racism. Records, grant/funding requests and applications and event/program/project documentation, as well as collected research on The archival material includes but is not limited to administrative/personnel
In addition there are 226 silk screen prints andĦ6 offset printed posters housed in 3 map drawers in CEMA and approximately 250 offset prints are housed in boxes at the annex.Ī separate guide is not yet available for this collection. ThereĪre also 738 slides for which a separate guide is available through CEMA. The collection consists of 8 series contained in 156 archival boxes occupying approximately 67 linear feet of space. The Centro Cultural de la Raza archives represents activities at and involving CCLR and its members between 19. On the question of where they would be based, the cultural center endured and became very strong with the backing of its community Through much political and social opposition in the 1970's due to subject matter of murals and debate The center's official inauguration was in July 1970 when the city of San Diego allowed Torres and company to locate the culturalĬenter in Balboa Park. Though much of the formative years of the center's philosophy and ideology began in the mid 60's, Salvador Torres, Guillermo Aranda, Ruben de Anda, Mario Acevedo, Victor Ochoa, David Avalos, the Enrique Family, the Delia Those active in forming the center and the organization of Los Toltecas en Aztlán, the organizing body of the center, were
They needed a place where they could develop and preserve the contributions and ideologies of San Diego's native population. The cultural center supports and encourages the creative expression "of those people who are indigenous to the border region."Īlthough established in 1970, its origins stem to the mid to late 1960's, when local Chicano artists were becoming aware that
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