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The center was established in 1981 by Kirkton as the Center for Photojournalism and Visual History. Oral histories, manuscripts and other ephemeral materials support the photograph collection. The mission of CSUNвЂ™s Tom & Ethel Bradley Center, housed in the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communications,В is to collect, preserve and disseminate the visual history of Southern California, with an emphasis on ethnic minority communities and photographers. The committee merged with the National Farm Workers Association to become the United Farm Workers of America. He ended up staying with the workers and continued to follow the unionizing efforts of Filipino and Mexican-American farmworkers during the 1960s and 1970s. Kouns later traveled to CaliforniaвЂ™s San JoaquГn Valley to document the Agricultural Workers Organizing CommitteeвЂ™s efforts to unionize farmworkers. From 1963-65 he traveled to Selma, Ala., to photograph the struggle for civil rights, including two marches from Selma to Montgomery. Later, while in Birmingham, Ala., he documented the aftermath of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four girls. In 1963, Kouns traveled to the March on Washington, where he took photographs of its participants.

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On the side, he practiced what he called вЂњsocial work photography,вЂќ offering his services for free to organizations and agencies that worked with people who were deaf and hard of hearing, people with disabilities and for the Salvation Army.

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Eugene вЂњGeneвЂќ Smith, an American photojournalist renowned for the dedication he devoted to his projects and his uncompromising professional and ethical standards.ДЄfter working as a news photographer for the international news wire service UPI in San Francisco, Kouns became a successful industrial photographer. In the late 1950s, Kouns studied at the New York Institute of Photography, where he met and was inspired by W. вЂќ He joined the civil rights organization at the age of 15. вЂњJohn,вЂќ the teacher is reported to have told him, вЂњwhat you should do is belong to the NAACP. вЂњIt affected me tremendously,вЂќ he told Moore.ДЄfter finishing the book, he asked his teacher what he could do. A high school teacher introduced him to Richard WrightвЂ™s novel вЂњNative Son,вЂќ which he said shaped his perspective on race in America. 21, 1929, John Alexander Kouns grew up in San Jose. вЂњI was just wanting to shoot photographs of people, and I think I hit some pretty good on the feelings that came through.вЂќД«orn in Alameda, Calif., on Sept. вЂњIвЂ™d rather carry through a kind of historical photography - record history,вЂќ Kouns said, in an interview that included a discussion about his photographs of the March on Washington in 1963.

Kouns talked about his work in an oral history of his career recorded by former CSUN graduate student James Moore in 2005. These images depict peopleвЂ™s history, and help us understand their actions and feel their emotions.вЂќ вЂњLike most of our collections, KounsвЂ™ images are not looking from the outside, but from inside the communities they portray. вЂњThey will be a key component of the Tom & Ethel Bradley CenterвЂ™s collections because his images of these social movements were made for and with the people participating in these struggles,вЂќ said Benavides, the centerвЂ™s current director. Journalism professor JosГ© Luis Benavides agreed, adding that KounsвЂ™ work is a significant new addition to the centerвЂ™s collection. вЂњHe is a photographer interested in exploring peopleвЂ™s actions and emotions, following in the humanistic tradition of photojournalist W. вЂњJohn has been a photographer inspired by ordinary people participating in social movements,вЂќ said Kent Kirkton, founder and former director of the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center. A self-described вЂњconcerned photographer,вЂќ KounsвЂ™ images open an intimate window to the work of the anonymous history makers behind these movements.Д¬alifornia State University, NorthridgeвЂ™s Tom & Ethel Bradley Center recently has received the first installment of about 25,000 images from KounsвЂ™ photographic collection, additions to the centerвЂ™s own expanding collection of photographs about ethnic minority communities in California and the nation. American photographer John Kouns spent years documenting two of the most important social movements of the 1960s and 1970s in America - the civil rights struggle in the South and the workersвЂ™ and civil rights struggle of the United Farm Workers in California.

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