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[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 John H. Sanders and Mario Marcel Salas to Benjamin Hooks - 1979]

Description: Letter from John H. Sanders and Mario Marcel Salas of Organizations United for Eastside Development to Benjamin Hooks, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). They are writing to request that a member of the national board - S. L. Deckard - be expelled for his support of Fred Semaan. An attorney by trade, Mr. Semaan provided the defense for two security guards charged with the voluntary manslaughter of Webb Eugene Boyd, whose murder was seen by many … more
Date: 1979
Creator: Sanders, John H. & Salas, Mario Marcel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Drew S. Days to OUED Members - August 29, 1979]

Description: Letter from Drew S. Days III, Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division, to John H. Sanders, Mario Marcel Salas, and Rick Green of Organizations United for Eastside Development (OUED). The letter is in reply to their allegation of fraud in the trial of Webb Boyd, whose murder was believed to have been racially motivated. Mr. Days assures them that correct action will be taken if their allegations are found to be true.
Date: August 29, 1979
Creator: Days, Drew S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from OUED to Roy Barrera - May 30, 1979]

Description: Letter from a member of Organizations United for Eastside Development (OUED) to Assistant District Attorney Roy Barrera. As prosecutor in the trail of Webb Eugene Boyd, Mr. Barrera was responsible for charging two police officers with the voluntary manslaughter of Mr. Boyd. OUED is writing to congratulate the attorney's work, which they see as a stepping stone in relieving racist relations in San Antonio.
Date: May 30, 1979
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Clipping: Store guards given six-year sentences]

Description: Newspaper clippings of the article, "Store guards given six-year sentences," in the San Antonio Express discussing Benjamin Mahavier's and Jesus Limon's conviction of voluntary manslaughter for the death of Webb Eugene Boyd. Mahavier and Limon shot Boyd, claiming self-defense, while he was driving in a parking lot.
Date: June 15, 1979
Creator: Hendricks, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

[Press Release, June 9, 1979]

Description: Press release discussing the guilty verdict returned by the jury in the trial regarding Webb Eugene Boyd's death. The release also comments on the racists tactics used by the defense and the social justice progress the guilty verdict represents.
Date: June 9, 1979
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

[Letter from Drew S. Days, III to John H. Sanders, Mario Salas, and Rick Green, August 29, 1979

Description: Letter from Drew S. Daly, III to John H. Sanders, Mario Salas, and Rick Green, of the Organizations United for Eastside Development, regarding their letter alleging that prosecutors in the Bexar County District Attorney's office excluded evidence from the criminal trial of the charges stemming from the death Webb Boyd.
Date: August 29, 1979
Creator: Days, Drew S., III
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas
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