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[Clipping: Columbus still has his backers]

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Newspaper clipping of the article, "Columbus still has his backers," in the Houston Post discussing a recent press conference held by Houston-area Hispanics, Italians, and the Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Texas Jubilee Commission to protest the state legislature's decision to replace Columbus Day with Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a paid holiday for state employees.

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1 clipping : ill. ; 13 x 18 cm., on sheet 28 x 22 cm.

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Root, Jay May 28, 1991.

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Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas documents Salas's participant in the civil rights movement in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s as well as early participation in the SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) San Antonio chapter, and as a civil rights leader for over 50 years.

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Newspaper clipping of the article, "Columbus still has his backers," in the Houston Post discussing a recent press conference held by Houston-area Hispanics, Italians, and the Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Texas Jubilee Commission to protest the state legislature's decision to replace Columbus Day with Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a paid holiday for state employees.

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1 clipping : ill. ; 13 x 18 cm., on sheet 28 x 22 cm.

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  • "Columbus still has his backers," Houston Post, Houston, Texas, May 28, 1991.

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Rescuing Texas History, 2018

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  • May 28, 1991

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Root, Jay. [Clipping: Columbus still has his backers], clipping, May 28, 1991; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1261526/: accessed May 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas.

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