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• California Cultures at Calisphere, University of California

Cultural Groups

African Americans

• See African American Resources for California

Basques

• See Basque Ethnic Group

Chinese

• 1850-1925 The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 at Library of Congress; a collection of 8,000 documents covering Chinese immigration on the Library of Congress, American Memory site. These include photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other documents.
  

See also Chinese Historical Society and LA County Asian Pacific Resources.

• Chinese in California, 1850-1925

Indigenous Peoples

• See Indigenous Peoples of California

Italians

• Americans in California (collection archived on Web Archive)

Japanese

• JARDA-Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives
• Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II ($)

General

See also United States Cultural Groups for additional resources.

Other records and histories of ethnic, racial, and religious groups in California are listed in the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:

CALIFORNIA - MINORITIES

CALIFORNIA, [COUNTY] - MINORITIES

CALIFORNIA, [COUNTY], [TOWN] - MINORITIES

You will also find records in the Subject Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:

AFRO-AMERICANS - CALIFORNIA