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[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to David Honig - October 20, 1975]

Description: Letter from Mario Marcel Salas, president of the Black Coalition on Mass Media, to David Honig, research analyst at the National Black Media Coalition. He is writing to ask for advice concerning an ongoing conflict with KAPE radio, a San Antonio radio station that was heavily criticized by the BCMM for its treatment of the African-American community.
Date: October 20, 1975
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to Emerson Marcee - March 12, 1975]

Description: Letter from Mario Marcel Salas, president of the Black Coalition on Mass Media (BCMM), to Emerson Marcee, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He requests the opportunity to make a presentation to the NAACP, so that the BCMM may receive support for their ongoing dispute with KAPE radio, which they have consistently criticized for discrediting the African-American community.
Date: March 12, 1975
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to Executive Committee - January 3, 1980]

Description: Letter from Mario Marcel Salas of Organizations United for Eastside Development (OUED) to an executive committee. He discusses an anti-Ku Klux Klan march in the works; its potential benefits and drawbacks; and its organizer, Antonio Cabral, who has antagonized other civil rights organizations, including the OUED.
Date: January 3, 1980
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to KSAT Television - May 3, 1979]

Description: Letter from Mario Marcel Salas, president of the Black Coalition on Mass Media, to KSAT Television. He writes to complain to the television station about a Bugs Bunny cartoon that was aired in which various racial slurs were used towards Japanese people. He hopes the airing was a mistake and an oversight on the part of the television station.
Date: May 3, 1979
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to Members of the TMCLC - January 28, 1975]

Description: Letter from Mario Marcel Salas, president of the Black Coalition on Mass Media, to members of the Texas Ministers and Citizens Leadership Council. He sends them a packet of information regarding a dispute between his organization - the BCMM - and KAPE radio. In the rest of the letter he writes about the struggle to correct the instruments of oppression endured by the black community.
Date: January 28, 1975
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to Mr. Moreno - July 12, 1978]

Description: Letter from Mario Marcel Salas, president of the Black Coalition on Mass Media, to Mr. Moreno of the Booker T. Washington Foundation. He writes to thank him for a packet he sent, and for further help in organizing a model ordinance and perhaps even a representative to help with some negotiations.
Date: July 12, 1978
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to Phil Watson - June 11, 1978]

Description: Letter from Mario Marcel Salas of the Black Coalition on Mass Media to Phil Watson. He writes requesting that Mr. Watson evaluate an ordinance put out by the city of San Antonio regarding the UA-Columbia franchise, a cable television provider that was seeking business in the area. He also requested that one of Mr. Watson's people look over his own approach to the franchise before a hearing was to take place; presumably, Mr. Salas had concerns about the company coming to San Antonio.
Date: June 11, 1978
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund]

Description: Letter from Mario Marcel Salas of the Organizations United for Eastside Development (OUED) to the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF). The letter formally requests the help of MALDEF in preventing the acquittal of two security guards who murdered Webb Eugene Boyd. Specifically, he asks for a MALDEF attorney.
Date: 1979
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to the United States Justice Department - November 8, 1979]

Description: Letter from Mario Marcel Salas of the Black Coalition on Mass Media to the Civil Rights Division of the United States Justice Department. He writes with an urgent tone, as word has spread of a possible march by the Ku Klux Klan. A radio personality, a city councilman, and an organization protesting a housing project have all been linked to the event. Fears of Klan members carrying weapons and enacting violence pose additional threats.
Date: November 8, 1979
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to Unknown Publication - May 29, 1975]

Description: Letter from Mario Marcel Salas, president of the Black Coalition on Mass Media (BCMM), to an unidentified publication. It is written in response to a letter that was sent by "C.O." in which he proposed that mixed marriages be stopped. Mr. Salas hopes that such blatant racism will one day be eradicated.
Date: May 29, 1975
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to William B. Ray - June 18, 1974]

Description: Letter from Mario Marcel Salas, president of the Black Coalition on Mass Media (BCMM), to William B. Ray of the Complaints and Compliance Division at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He writes to request a 60 day extension for a petition to deny renewal of the KAPE radio license. He also asks that no renewal be given by the FCC until they are able to complete their investigation. The requests are made on the grounds that KAPE refused to provide BCMM members a copy of their 1974 rene… more
Date: June 18, 1974
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to William B. Ray - November 13, 1974]

Description: Letter from Mario Marcel Salas, president of the Black Coalition on Mass Media (BCMM), to William B. Ray of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He is writing to file a formal complaint against KAPE radio after they refused to provide any coverage on a press coverage that the BCMM held.
Date: November 13, 1974
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to William B. Ray - October 12, 1974]

Description: Letter from Mario Marcel Salas, chairman of the Black Coalition on Mass Media(BCMM), to William B. Ray of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The letter was sent as a formal complaint to the FCC after a local radio station in San Antonio - KAPE radio - refused to meet with the BCMM to discuss the disregard they had shown towards the African-American community.
Date: October 12, 1974
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter of Complaint from Mario Marcel Salas to William B. Ray - November 13, 1974]

Description: Letter from Mario Marcel Salas, president of the Black Coalition on Mass Media (BCMM), to William B. Ray of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He is writing to file a formal complaint against WOAI TV and KAPE radio for neglecting to provide equal and adequate coverage of a press conference held by the BCMM. The event is seen as one in a long line of attempts made to discredit the black community.
Date: November 13, 1974
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Mailgram Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to Sam Sitterle and Tom Poe - April 9, 1982]

Description: Mailgram letter from Mario Marcel Salas, president of the Black Coalition on Mass Media (BCMM), to Sam Sitterle and Tom Poe. It would seem that both Sam and Tom were associated with the removal of two important radio programs from the air. Mr. Salas writes to respectfully request that both be reinstated, especially with the long history shared between Mr. Salas, BCMM, and KAPE radio, dating back to 1974.
Date: April 9, 1982
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Student National Coordinating Committee News Bulletin]

Description: News bulletin by members of the Student National Coordinating Committee (S.N.C.C). It contains two articles, written by Carlos Richardson and Mario Marcel Salas. Richardson's piece talks at length about the ongoing issues of racism and prejudice in the San Antonio community. Salas discusses his recent arrest at Hawthorne Junior High School for disorderly conduct.
Date: 1969
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel & Richardson, Carlos
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to Ed Cheviot - February 19, 1986]

Description: Mailgram letter from Mario Marcel Salas, Rick Greene, and John Sanders of Organizations United for Eastside Development, to Ed Cheviot, general manager of KMOL-TV. They write the day after a press conference was held to discuss racist remarks by Suzanne Hildebrand. They blame Mr. Cheviot for sending a panel member who was rude, insensitive, and walked out during the conference.
Date: February 19, 1986
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel; Greene, Rick & Sanders, John H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas, John Sanders, and Rick Greene to United States Department of Justice - March 13, 1982]

Description: Mailgram letter from Mario Marcel Salas, Rick Greene, and John H. Sanders from Organizations United for Eastside Development to the civil rights division at the United States Department of Justice. The organization leaders are writing to request an investigation into an incident between Amtrak security personnel and Charlene Mitchell and Mike Welch, who were allegedly drugged, attacked, and charged with public drunkenness.
Date: March 13, 1982
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel; Sanders, John H. & Greene, Rick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from John H. Sanders to Henry B. Gonzalez - December 7, 1983]

Description: Mailgram letter from John H. Sanders, president of Organizations United for Eastside Development, to representative Henry B. Gonzalez. He writes to thank him for beginning an impeachment process for President Reagan that began with differences over his foreign policies. Specifically, Sanders condemns the United States involvement in Grenada and Lebanon.
Date: December 7, 1983
Creator: Sanders, John H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from John H. Sanders to Henry B. Gonzalez - July 13, 1979]

Description: Letter from John H. Sanders, president of Organizations United for Eastside Development (OUED), to congressman Henry B. Gonzalez. The letter was written as a follow-up, and as a request for help, after Sanders met Gonzalez in Washington D. C. over problems brewing in the San Antonio community. It would seem that the City Manager and members of its staff made concerted efforts to undermine urban development, community centers, and other services that would have been beneficial to San Antonio's m… more
Date: July 13, 1979
Creator: Sanders, John H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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