Here's some info for SoCal!

Here are some ideas for Southern California links:

- CA State Library: http://www.library.ca.gov/
- The L.A. Public library has access to a wide variety of So Cal newspapers and an online photo collection that might have something of interest:
         https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/research-and-homework
-The Online Archive of California:  http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
-? not sure if this covers So Cal - but check it out: UC Santa Barbara California Heritage Collection: https://www.library.ucsb.edu/research/db/1296
- Southern California Library: http://www.socallib.org/  [I think this is a physical only library - looks pretty radical]
-The California Historical Society: https://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/
-San Fernando Valley History Digital Collection: http://digital-library.csun.edu/
- a fun site on transportation in L.A. : http://thesource.metro.net/tag/primary-resources/
-CA African American Museum: http://www.socalmuseums.org/museum/caam/

Don’t forget your presidential libraries:
Ronald Reagan: https://www.reaganfoundation.org/
Richard Nixon: https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/

Some topics to suggest to students

-early Lockheed
-Mission in So Cal
-Japanese relocation
-a movie set
-orange groves
-Hollywood bowl
-L.A. River
-surfboards [check out Black surfer history] [Beach Boys and “surf culture”]
Rock and Roll / movies — change attitudes towards the war [towards parents, towards ‘the establishment’? ]
-Zoot Suit fashion and culture
-La Raza march
Rueben Salazar
Watts Riots
Low Rider car culture and art
board racing [early auto racing that was very popular in So Cal]
drive-in Theater
Doger Stadium
Route 66
Pacific Ocean Park / Disneyland / Knotts Berry Farm
The trolley system in L.A.
Tom Bradley, Dorothy Dandridge, Magic Johnson, Carl Lewis, Etta James, and other African Americans of note
The Hog Farm
Walt Disney and unions [he was picketed by his union during the war]