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[Clipping from scrapbook - includes greeting card, business card, and envelope addressed to John J. Herrera]

Part of page from a scrapbook with a note from the Supreme Court of Texas congratulating John J. Herrera, with envelope, and a business card for John J. Herrera. Note, envelope, and business card are laminated on a piece of thin cardboard.

Date: October 24, 1943

Item Type: Clipping

Fraternidad, Volume 2, Number 17

Spanish language newsletter containing riddles, poems, and articles. Contains two English language articles: "The Problem of the Independence of Puerto Rico" and "The Jewish Problem in the Post-War World," which contains excerpts from five different articles. The cost of the newsletter was 5 cents.

Date: October 10, 1945

Item Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter

[Letter from John J. Herrera to Senor Liciendado Ezequiel Padilla - 1943-08-02]

Letter written in Spanish from John J. Herrera to Senor Liciendado Ezequiel Padilla, Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores, Mexico, D.F. dated August 2, 1943. Includes a handwritten postcript written by John J. Herrera stating "He sent the picture! 8/11 same year."

Date: August 2, 1943

Creator: Herrera, John J.

Item Type: Letter

[Letter from Manuel M. Ortiz to John J. Herrera - 1943-09-08]

Letter from Manuel M. Ortiz to John J. Herrera, from a scrapbook. Ortiz sends Herrera his congratulations and wishes for good luck. The envelope is attached to the same scrapbook page, right below the letter.

Date: September 8, 1943

Creator: Ortiz, Manuel M.

Item Type: Letter

[Letter from Maria Luisa Garza to John J. Herrera - 1949-12-03]

Letter from Maria Luisa Garza to John J. Herrera dated December 3, 1949. Garza writes to Herrera about financial records related to her deceased father.

Date: December 3, 1949

Creator: Garza, Maria Luisa

Item Type: Letter

Newsflash from KCOR, June 15, 1948]

Newsflash from KCOR radio station, reporting on news from Austin, Texas, from Raoul A. Cortez, President of the League of United Latin American Citizens. Judge Ben H. Rice, Jr., from the Federal Court in Austin, has ordered a statewide ban on segregation of Mexican-American children in Texas schools, stating that the practice is unconstitutional and violates the 14th Amendment.

Date: June 15, 1948

Creator: KCOR

Item Type: Text

The Pan American, Volume 1, Number 4, January, 1945

A 30-page newsletter called The Pan American produced in San Antonio, Texas by the Texas League of United Latin American Citizens organization in January of 1945. Pages 1-15 are in English and pages 16-30 are in Spanish. This issue has articles about the Houston LULAC Council #60 and a short biographical article about John J. Herrera is included.

Date: January 1945

Creator: League of United Latin American Citizens

Item Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter

Programa de trabajos que me propongo realizar, de llegar a la Presidencia Nacional de L.U.L.A.C.

Document details a list of goals for Herrera to strength his case to be national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens. Goals include continuing his work on anti-discrimination and anti-segregation laws, and creating scholarships for Hispanic American students.

Date: 1948

Creator: Herrera, John J.

Item Type: Text

[Speech by John J. Herrera at Fiestas Patrias Celebration - 1945-09-16]

Speech, written in Spanish, by John J. Herrera for the Fiestas Patrias celebration held at the Coliseum of Houston, Texas, on September 16, 1945.

Date: September 16, 1945

Creator: Herrera, John J.

Item Type: Text

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[Clipping from scrapbook - includes greeting card, business card, and envelope addressed to John J. Herrera]

Fraternidad, Volume 2, Number 17

[Letter from John J. Herrera to Senor Liciendado Ezequiel Padilla - 1943-08-02]

[Letter from Manuel M. Ortiz to John J. Herrera - 1943-09-08]

[Letter from Maria Luisa Garza to John J. Herrera - 1949-12-03]

Newsflash from KCOR, June 15, 1948]

The Pan American, Volume 1, Number 4, January, 1945

Programa de trabajos que me propongo realizar, de llegar a la Presidencia Nacional de L.U.L.A.C.

[Speech by John J. Herrera at Fiestas Patrias Celebration - 1945-09-16]