This is a work in progress – please feel free to send your suggestions & we will add them here!

CALIFORNIA & GENERAL RESEARCH RESOURCES

ARCHIVE.ORG  
www.archive.org
An Internet Archive that is a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. An incredible amount of visual and moving images in addition to an increasing number of other resources.

UCLA LIBRARY’S CENTER FOR ORAL HISTORY RESEARCH http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/
A link to the UCLA Library’s Center for Oral History Research.  Great resource for interviewing guidelines as well as an extensive collection of oral history interviews.

LOS ANGELES HISTORY ARCHIVE AT THE STUDIO FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY
www.lahistoryarchive.org/
a catalog of downloadable historical documents and a repository for educator resources including timelines, profiles of prominent Southern Californians across time and related historical information. The Collection includes thousands of assets from the Studio for Southern California History, from videotaped excerpts of walking tours and oral histories, to photographs and family documents.
The California African American Museum in Los Angeles
http://www.caamuseum.org/

THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LIBRARY FOR SOCIAL STUDIES AND RESEARCH www.socallib.org
The Southern California Library is a people's library dedicated to documenting and preserving the histories of communities in struggle for justice and using our collections to address the challenges of the present so that all people have the ability, resources, and freedom to make their own histories.

 

OTHER LEIMERT PARK RESOURCES

NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT:LEIMERT PARK http://laist.com/2008/07/15/neighborhood_pr_11.php
Elise Thompson put together this piece on Leimert Park for the website “LAist.com” on 15 July 2008. It is a great piece of work with a good deal of history, photos & some footage from the area.   (May have a few minor historical errors – but overall, well-researched & incredibly beautiful)

THE WORLD STAGE PERFORMANCE GALLERY
www.theworldstage.org
The World Stage website (pretty self explanatory!)

Babe's & Ricky's Blues Club
www.bluesbar.com
Babe's & Ricky's Blues Club in Leimert Park – this club is not featured in the documentary itself, but is probably the oldest blues club in LA. Originally on Central Avenue in Los Angeles, they moved to Leimert Park in the 90’s.

PROJECT BLOWED AT KAOS NETWORK
http://projectblowed.ning.com/
This is a social network website for Project Blowed – the Thursday night freestyle rap. open mic workshop & group at Kaos Network in Leimert Park.  This website features music, blogs, a mixed bag…

 

 

 

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