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Box 1

 Container

Contains 7 Results:

Zoot Suit Riots, 1943-1945, 1997, 2003, 2007, 2017

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Includes: letters; photographs; a greeting card; Newsweek article "Zoot Suits and Service Stripes: Race Tension Behind Bars"; Crime Detective "I Boosed the Zoot Suit Gang"; "Second Report Un-American Activities in California" (1945); "Zoot Suit a new rock musical" (DVD); articles, Playbill, programs, poster, t- shirt [located in box 2], and DVD related to "Zoot Suit" by Luis Valdez; Homeboys Chicano Zoot Suit t-shirt [located in box 2]; drawing of a [zoot suiter being slugged by a sailor], ...
Dates: 1943-1945, 1997, 2003, 2007, 2017

articles, booklet, and t-shirt regarding killing of Ruben Salazar, 1966, 1970, 1971

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains magazines, articles, newspaper clippings, theater programs, flyers, pamphlets, vinyl records, t-shirts, and other material regarding Chicano history. A majority of the material relates to topics such as the Zoot Suit riots; education; the East LA High School Walkouts of 1968; immigration; politics; and other areas of activism regarding the Chicano movement. Some of the material in this collection were featured as part of the Gerth Archives and Special Collections...
Dates: 1966, 1970, 1971

music- general file, 1968, 1987, circa 1970s; undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5-6
Scope and Contents

Includes: signed promotional photograph of Linda Ronstadt and Daniel Valdez; photograph of Carlos Santana, Daniel Valdez and others; Santana Freedom Concert program; vinyl records- "Cancion Del Partido De Los Pobres", "Adios A Jenaro Vasquez" Judith Reyes; White Front "Top 30 Hits!" [broadside]

Dates: 1968, 1987, circa 1970s; undated

education- general file, 1970-1971, 1980, 2006

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Includes: "Power to the People" Cal State rally flyer; 'Mexican Students Por La Raza" by Juan Gomez-Quinones; "Unite the Chicano Student Movement"; Wokers Solidarity Committee "Celerbate Moratorium" flyer; "Walkout" (DVD).

Dates: 1970-1971, 1980, 2006

immigration- general file, 1977, 1989, circa 1970s

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Includes: flyers and pamphlets related to [President] Carter's immigration plan; "Unite for Unconditional Amnesty" [booklet]; Central American Refugee Committees (CRECEN) "No Human Being is Illegal" [flyer]; "Forum Immigration and Public Policy" sponsored by MECHA [flyer]; California Conference on Immigration and Public Policy program.

Dates: 1977, 1989, circa 1970s

Chicano movement- general file, 1958; 1965; 1970; 1974; 1979; 1980-1985; 1989, 1997; 2010; undated

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Includes: material related to California Dream Act; Committee for Yes on Baseball; event flyers- "El Grito De Lares! With the Puerto Rican Community", "Chicana Artist Drawing Workshop", Committee for International Women's Day, "Central America: Whose War Is It Anyway?" (CSUDH), "No Draft! No US Intervention in El Salvador!", "Ricardo Chavez Ortiz in Person", Free Freddy [De La Rosa] demonstration, and others; Mexican-American Political Association "Vote for Hubert Humphrey"; Nicaragua...
Dates: 1958; 1965; 1970; 1974; 1979; 1980-1985; 1989, 1997; 2010; undated

Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee- press release; statement of Carey McWilliams, national chairman of the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee, regarding decision in sleepy lagoon case, October 4, 1944

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains magazines, articles, newspaper clippings, theater programs, flyers, pamphlets, vinyl records, t-shirts, and other material regarding Chicano history. A majority of the material relates to topics such as the Zoot Suit riots; education; the East LA High School Walkouts of 1968; immigration; politics; and other areas of activism regarding the Chicano movement. Some of the material in this collection were featured as part of the Gerth Archives and Special Collections...
Dates: October 4, 1944