The Latino History Project: A Pilot Youth Program for Collecting Community History The Latino History Project is a program dedicated to involving youth in collecting, preserving and exhibiting 20th century Latino history in the San Francisco East Bay cities of Oakland and Hayward. High school students (ages 14-18) worked with professional historians to conduct original research that included interviewing elders as well as using local archival resources. The Oakland Museum of California developed this program in collaboration with the Spanish Speaking Citizens' Foundation Youth and Family Services, Oakland, and the Puente Project, Hayward. The Latino History Project is based on the acknowledgment that the preservation of primary sources of Latino history has been sporadic and fragmentary, and that there is an urgent need to preserve the sources of this history before it is too late. The project produced original historical research and collected community history that was in imminent danger of being lost. Special Note: Community history in this project recognizes the diversity and complexities that exist in any community and that extend beyond generational and geographic boundaries. The research collected to date through this project resulted in an emphasis on Mexican American history in Oakland and Hayward. This mirrors the historically large proportion of Mexican Americans in the region and the community networks involved in the pilot project. We recognize more research is needed. This project provides a model for expanding the research and uncovering the stories of not only the region's diverse Latino communities but other communities as well.