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SoCal Repositories/South Central LA Archives

South Central Archive [Los Angeles]  https://www.southcentralarchive.com/
  • "In 2021, Esperanza Community Housing launched the South Central Archive as a community-driven preservation project that anchors intergenerational stories by Indigenous, Black, Brown, Immigrant, LGBTQIA2S+, system-impacted, and people of all abilities in South Central through documenting, preserving, and celebrating their unique and collective experience."
Southern California Library https://www.socallib.org/
  • "SCL is a community library and archive located in South Los Angeles. Founded over 50 years ago, the Library holds extensive collections of histories of community resistance in Los Angeles and beyond. Everyone is welcome to use the Library's resources to research and put to practice the histories of everyday people working to create change."