California State University, Northridge’s Tom & Ethel Bradley Center has acquired a collection of images by photographer Vera Jackson, the only woman who worked in the 1940s as a staff photographer of The California Eagle—the oldest Black newspaper in Los Angeles. 

They risked their lives in the fight for a better economic future for farmworkers and recognition that the men, women and children who picked produce in America’s fields were human beings and deserved to be treated with respect.

“Esperanza y Dignidad: The Farmworker Movement”, comisariada por el Tom & Ethel Bradley Center de la Universidad Estatal de California en Northridge, capta los rostros de cientos de hombres y mujeres que integraron el movimiento. La exposición se inaugura esta semana en el Museo de Justicia Social, en el centro de Los Ángeles.

Israeli-American journalist Asaf Elia-Shalev will discuss his most recent publication, “Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth” on Tuesday, April 9, at California State University, Northridge.

CSUN graduate student (mass communication) and CSUN Today contributor Analisa Venolia’s grandparents were founding members of the United Farm Workers union, and their personal recollections are part of the Tom and Ethel Bradley Center’s archives and the University Library’s archives.