Laborers, Aliens, and Refugees, 1940-1965

Arthur Gorian pictured in front of his store.As a young businessman operating his own markethe was charitable in helping other young people enter into the grocery business and operate their own market…

Draft of speech written by John J. Herrera titled "LULAC And The Latin-American in Texas." Discusses growing numbers of Spanish-speaking people in Texas and the role of LULAC as a liaison between them…

Caption included with image: An old land mark (sic) that was razed in Marcus recently was the Immigration Station which was used by the railroad as a railway station since the removal of the regular s…

Located in the series "Biographical Materials" in the Leo Szilard Papers. MSS 32 Reformatted digital Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This…

Norio Higano was a medical student in St. Louis, Missouri during World War II. His parents, Haji and Ura, and his sister Shizuko were at Camp Harmony and Minidoka. Another sister, Aiko, was enrolled a…

Alien Registration receipt card belonging to Takaichi Tsukamoto. Includes a message from the Director of Registration, information on change of address, and Tsukamoto's fingerprint. Form AR-3. The Jap…

1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in.

Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi (1918-2012) was an American sociologist and conscientious objector to the Japanese American internment during WWII. Born in the Sand Point area of Seattle, he grew up on the…

Significant evidence of the high degree of Nisei assimilation of American ways, comparing favorably with the attainments of other groups of immigrants' children, has been briefly reviewed in this docu…

Resolution by the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America requesting amendments to the Tydings-McDuffie Act relaxing immigration quotas for Filipinos already living or pla…

Note from donor file: Survivors of Holocaust, aboard ship to USA, Ann Neiss Birulin, back row, 3rd from leftPH Coll 650 Birulin, Ann Neiss.1

Leaflet produced by Local 7 calling for a special meeting at the Union Hall regarding the sudden arrest of Local 7's business agent, Brother Ernie Mangaoang. It also calls for a show of support for Er…

This item is the visa application for Nicholas N. Karpovich. The application includes a photograph of this individual and correspondence between the American Consulate General in Shanghai, China and t…

Warrant for the arrest of Ernesto Mangaoang accused of being "an alien who is a member of an organization, association, society, or group that writes, circulates, distributes, prints, publishes or dis…

Quote from document: John P. Boyd, Northwest Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, has already made the following statements in carrying out the Walter-McCarran Act: After December 2…

Resolution of League of United Latin American Citizens at the Texas Regional LULAC Convention held in Galveston, Texas, January 26-27, 1952. This resolution concerns the study written by Lyle Saunders…

Copies of newspaper articles regarding Texas Governor Allan Shivers and other Texas farmers using "exploiting" Mexican workers on their farms, dated June 5 and 6, 1952. 2 p. ; 36 cm.

Record is based on bibliographic data in CIS US Congressional Committee Hearings Index. Reuse except for individual research requires license from Congressional Information Service, Inc. Indexed in CI…

Folder: S.F. Districts-Chinatown-People. Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions. Written on back: "…

The Washington State Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born was a multi-ethnic coalition formed to stop the deportation of immigrants with Leftists opinions.

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a campaign to deport undocumented Mexican laborers from the Rio Grande Valley. 2 p. ; 28 cm.

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Mexican immigrant, Augustine Siller, being held in Fort Worth for immigration authorities after admitting that he di…

The law was used to hamper the union's ability to strike and could be used to deport people deemed "subversive." As well, the law expanded the powers to the Attorney General, who could arrest and inde…

Includes bibliography.

Joaquina Gonzalez (born 1934, immigrated to U.S. in 1957) and Herman Vargas (born 1943, immigrated to U.S. in 1955) standing with backs to camera on altar of unidentified Catholic church in Brooklyn o…

Reformatted digital Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Herman Baca Papers (MSS 0649, Bo…