A rickshaw driver and his passenger pose for a photographer on North Spring Street, China City, the "New" Chinatown in Los Angeles following the move from the Union Station area.
Leroy "Satchel" Paige, a successful player in the Negro Leagues from 1926-1947 before he signed with the Cleveland Indians as the second African American player in the majors, reclines in a chair.
Little Tokyo in Los Angeles was dubbed "Bronzeville" during World War Two, as African American families and workers moved into the empty homes and businesses of the relocated Japanese American community.
Japanese immigrants and aliens register as Los Angeles residents under the Alien Registration Act of 1940. Interior view of the United States Post Office at 660 E. 22nd Street in downtown Los Angeles.
Mexican migrant workers travel by train to Los Angeles as participants in the Bracero Program, which was instituted by the American and Mexican goverments to ease agricultural labor shortages in the United States during World War Two.
Japanese Americans settle into temporary housing in the Winona trailer camp in Burbank, California following their release from wartime internment camps.