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[Clipping: Boycott urged to force state King holiday #2]

Description: Newspaper clippings of the second page of the article, "Boycott urged to force state King holiday," discussing a boycott to encourage Texas to make Martin Luther King Day a full holiday. Civil rights leaders in Texas urged the National Football League to boycott Texas when Houston was being considered as the location of the Super Bowl for 1995. The article quotes Mario Marcel Salas, state senator Frank Tejada, and Rev. R. A. Callies regarding their efforts in organizing the push for the holiday. more
Date: March 27, 1991
Creator: Garcia, James E.

[Clipping: Mandela deputy to speak here Sunday]

Description: Newspaper clippings of the article, "Mandela deputy to speak here Sunday," in the San Antonio Light discussing a fundraising event organized by the San Antonio Mandela Project at which Lyndall Shope-Mafole is scheduled to speak. Rev. Claude Black is quoted speaking about the role black Americans can contribute to the efforts to abolish apartheid.
Date: July 17, 1990

[Letter from John W. Stanford, Jr. to the American Civil Liberties Union, February 16, 1961]

Description: Letter from John W. Stanford, Jr. to the American Civil Liberties Union discussing the recent series of articles published in the Dallas Morning News about communists in Texas and naming John W. Stanford as a member of the communist party. Stanford anticipates being charged as communism is illegal in Texas and asks if the American Civil Liberties Union would recommend an attorney.
Date: February 16, 1961
Creator: Stanford, John W., Jr.

John Stanford, Texan (1924-2013)

Description: Pamphlet containing the edited text of an open letter to Attorney General Price Daniel and to all other law enforcement officers in the State of Texas, written April 29, 1951 by John Stanford. There is a drawing of Stanford on the front of the pamphlet.
Date: 2013?
Creator: Stanford, John W., Jr.

Four Defendants Freed

Description: Document, likely a press release or news article, discussing the release of four people who had been arrested on charges of disorderly conduct following a confrontation about racial discrimination at Hawthorne Junior High School in San Antonio. The released defendants were Tom Flower, Lloyd Dancy, Thomas V. Lewis, and Phillip Boykins. "Mario A. Salas" is the fifth defendant and was not released. A drawing of an upraised fist, and the address for the Ministry of Information of the Student Nation… more
Date: February 13, 1970
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