Digital Stewardship and the Farmworker Movement: Preserving the Kouns and Clarke Archives at CSU Northridge (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Digital Stewardship and the Farmworker Movement: Preserving the Kouns and Clarke Archives at CSU Northridge
Abstract: As part of the Fourth Annual Jess Nieto Memorial Conference, last March 31, on César Chávez Day, Dr. José Luis Benavides, director of the Bradley Center presented the talk titled, “Digital Stewardship and the Farmworker Movement: Preserving the Kouns and Clarke Archives at CSU Northridge,” moderated by Dr. Oliver Rosales, professor of History at Bakersfield College.
Author: José Luis Benavides
Date: 03/31/2022
Location: Bakersfield College
Primary URL: https://youtu.be/SGGxt1VrmCU
Primary URL Description: the Annual Jess Nieto Memorial Conference Session 5
Digital Stewardship and the Farmworker Movement:
Preserving the Kouns and Clarke Archives at CSU Northridge
Dr. José Luis Benavides, Professor of Journalism and
Director of the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center at CSU Northridge
Moderated by Dr. Oliver Rosales, Professor of History at BC
Secondary URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnPBhAB-bRKm1jN0cHdYqrA
Secondary URL Description: Bakersfield College Social Justice Institute YouTube Channel.
Farmworker Movement Collection (beta site) (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: Farmworker Movement Collection (beta site)
Author: CSUN Tom and Ethel Bradley Center
Abstract: Images on the Farmworker Movement by American photographers Emmon Clarke and John Kouns. All images include bilingual metadata.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://cdm17169.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/FMC/
Primary URL Description: Images on the Farmworker Movement by American photographers Emmon Clarke and John Kouns. All images include bilingual metadata. The site to introduce this collection is still under construction, but users can browse the images we are uploading.
Secondary URL: https://cdm17169.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/FMC/search
Secondary URL Description: Browse the images on the Farmworker Movement Collection by American photographers Emmon Clarke and John Kouns. All images include bilingual metadata.
Access Model: Open
Emmon Clarke speaks about his work (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Emmon Clarke speaks about his work
Writer: Kent Kirkton
Director: Kent Kirkton
Producer: Tom and Ethel Bradley Center
Abstract: Photographer Emmon Clarke speaks about his work as a staff photographer for El Malcriado, the unofficial publication of the farmworkers. He talks about how he arrived in Delano in 1966 and was inspired by the struggle of farmworkers and wanted to document it.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://youtu.be/9ptXTkrOfjs
Primary URL Description: Photographer Emmon Clarke speaks about his work as a staff photographer for El Malcriado, the unofficial publication of the farmworkers. He talks about how he arrived in Delano in 1966 and was inspired by the struggle of farmworkers and wanted to document it. The interview was conducted in 1995. (4:29 minutes)
Secondary URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK5L1RQvapAWcpl2FR3OucDVjahg-wVAp
Secondary URL Description: Farmworker Movement Collection. Photographs, interviews, and oral histories on the Farmworker Movement as part of CSUN Tom and Ethel Bradley Center's Farmworker Movement Collection, with support by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Access Model: Open
Format: Video
Format: Digital File
Format: Web
John Kouns speaks about his work (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: John Kouns speaks about his work
Writer: Kent Kirkton
Director: Kent Kirkton
Producer: Tom and Ethel Bradley Center
Abstract: Photographer John Kouns speaks about his work in this short interview. talks about photography as a "passport" to witness and capture important historical events—the Civil Rights struggle in the South and the Farmworker Movement in California. (6:19 minutes)
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://youtu.be/f8fWZp0S6zY
Primary URL Description: Photographer John Kouns speaks about his work in this short interview. talks about photography as a "passport" to witness and capture important historical events—the Civil Rights struggle in the South and the Farmworker Movement in California. (6:19 minutes)
Secondary URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK5L1RQvapAWcpl2FR3OucDVjahg-wVAp
Secondary URL Description: Photographs, interviews, and oral histories on the Farmworker Movement as part of CSUN Tom and Ethel Bradley Center's Farmworker Movement Collection, with support by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Access Model: Open
Format: Video
Format: Digital File
Format: Web
Dolores Huerta Interview, CSUN, 1995 (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Dolores Huerta Interview, CSUN, 1995
Writer: Rick Marks
Director: Kent Kirkton
Director: Rick Marks
Producer: Tom and Ethel Bradley Center
Abstract: Journalism Professor Rick Marks interviewed Dolores Huerta in 1995 when she came to speak at CSUN, as part of the California Farm Workers Oral History Project. The project was sponsored by the CSUN Provost's Committee on Chicano/Labor History, the School of Humanities, the Urban Archives, and the Center for Photojournalism and Visual History (now the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center). Music and editing by Brandon Lien. Thumbnail photo by Emmon Clarke.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://youtu.be/WZ35FJ27M-A
Primary URL Description: Journalism Professor Rick Marks interviewed Dolores Huerta in 1995 when she came to speak at CSUN, as part of the California Farm Workers Oral History Project. The project was sponsored by the CSUN Provost's Committee on Chicano/Labor History, the School of Humanities, the Urban Archives, and the Center for Photojournalism and Visual History (now the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center). Music and editing by Brandon Lien. Thumbnail photo by Emmon Clarke (38:46 minutes).
Secondary URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK5L1RQvapAWcpl2FR3OucDVjahg-wVAp
Secondary URL Description: Photographs, interviews, and oral histories on the Farmworker Movement as part of CSUN Tom and Ethel Bradley Center's Farmworker Movement Collection, with support by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Access Model: Open
Format: Video
Format: Digital File
Format: Web
Eliseo Medina on why he joined the grape strike (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Eliseo Medina on why he joined the grape strike
Writer: José Luis Benavides
Director: Kent Kirkton
Director: José Luis Benavides
Producer: Tom and Ethel Bradley Center
Abstract: Eliseo Medina tells the story of attending the union meeting on Sept. 16, 1965, when workers of the National Farm Worker Association decided to join the grape strike that Filipino workers started on Sept. 8. Medina, then a 19-year-old farmworker from Delano, tells about the excitement of that meeting as he listened first to Gilbert Padilla and César Chávez, and how César Chávez's speech convinced him to join the strike. (4:35 minutes)
Oral history interview conducted on May 17, 2022, by Kent Kirkton and José Luis Benavides. Sound and video: Brandon Lien. Thumbnail photo of Eliseo Medina by Emmon Clarke.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://youtu.be/DYIDi_Ot3Io
Primary URL Description: Eliseo Medina tells the story of attending the union meeting on Sept. 16, 1965, when workers of the National Farm Worker Association decided to join the grape strike that Filipino workers started on Sept. 8. Medina, then a 19-year-old farmworker from Delano, tells about the excitement of that meeting as he listened first to Gilbert Padilla and César Chávez, and how César Chávez's speech convinced him to join the strike. (4:35 minutes)
Oral history interview conducted on May 17, 2022, by Kent Kirkton and José Luis Benavides. Sound and video: Brandon Lien. Thumbnail photo of Eliseo Medina by Emmon Clarke.
Secondary URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK5L1RQvapAWcpl2FR3OucDVjahg-wVAp
Secondary URL Description: Photographs, interviews, and oral histories on the Farmworker Movement as part of CSUN Tom and Ethel Bradley Center's Farmworker Movement Collection, with support by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Format: Video
Format: Digital File
Format: Web
Liberated: Newsletter from the Tom and Ethel Bradley Center (Blog Post)
Title: Liberated: Newsletter from the Tom and Ethel Bradley Center
Author: Joseph Silva
Author: Marta Valier
Author: Guillermo Márquez
Author: Keith Rice
Author: José Luis Benavides
Author: Gillian Morán-Pérez
Abstract: Liberated is a publication by the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center, CSUN. The Bradley Center has a collection of more than one million images and oral histories representing diverse communities. The archive contains one of the largest collections of African American photographers west of the Mississippi and the most extensive collection in Southern California. Our collections are housed digitally and in the University Library on the campus of California State University, Northridge. LIBERATED is one of the multiple platforms we use to disseminate our visual and aural history.
Date: 05/14/2021
Primary URL: https://bradleycenterliberated.substack.com/
Primary URL Description: The monthly newsletter, Liberated, informs friends, supporters, students, scholars, and the public in general about the activities of the Bradley Center. Also, we regularly showcase images from the photographic collections that the Center holds. We regularly include featured images and videos of the Farmworker Movement Collection, the Richard Cross Collection, and the African American Photographers' Collection, all projects supported by the National Endowment of the Humanities.