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[Press Conference Statement - February 18, 1986]

Description: Press conference statement released by Organizations United for Eastside Development. The conference was held to bring attention to Suzanne Hildebrand's profane use of racial slurs against Clinton Jefferson, a San Antonio law enforcement officer, and perhaps her equally racially motivated attacks against judge Benjamin Samples.
Date: February 18, 1986
Creator: Organizations United for Eastside Development
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Press Conference Statement - January 25, 1986]

Description: Press conference statement released by Organizations United for Eastside Development (OUED). They are calling for a mass reform of the San Antonio police force and its accompanying organization - the San Antonio Police Officers Association (S.A.P.O.A). The OUED claims that both have not held their officers accountable for various instances of police brutality and violence.
Date: January 25, 1986
Creator: Organizations United for Eastside Development
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.
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Bruce to Sterling Houston - November 3, 1986]

Description: Letter, Christmas card, and photograph from Bruce to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. In his letter, he writes that it was great to see him perform. In the card, he discusses seeing Karen Finley perform on stage and making gingerbread houses to bring to an AIDS ward. In this same card, he has also included a photograph of (presumably) himself wearing a Santa Claus hat and embracing three large dogs. Behind him, on a wooden drawer, two colorful gingerbread houses have been pla… more
Date: November 3, 1986
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Dan H. Laurence to Louis Leroy - February 25, 1986]

Description: Letter from Dan H. Laurence to Louis Leroy of the San Antonio Arts Council. Mr. Laurence is writing a recommendation for Sterling Houston, a prominent playwright and actor in San Antonio who applied for a thousand dollar grant from the council. Mr. Laurence praises Houston's professionalism and dynamism, noting that a grant would be a great show of support for a minority performer of Houston's caliber.
Date: February 25, 1986
Creator: Laurence, Dan H.
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Death Spectacular Show at Paramount Theater]

Description: Photograph of a stage filled with performers clothed in Day of the Dead costumes. In the background four performers (two male, two female) hold hands as if being pulled away from the action. Miscellaneous performers stand in the wings. In the foreground, two men in suits tussle with a figure costumed as a ram while a woman in white stands nearby. One man's hat has fallen to the ground; the woman wears a veil.
Date: 1986
Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)
Partner: Mexic-Arte Museum

[Links Chapter Documentation: Newspaper copy item about Jackson, Mississippi chapter of The Links, Inc.]

Description: Unpublished newspaper copy for an article to be headlined "Black Civic Groups Wants [sic] to Honor Veteran Journalist" about the efforts of the Jackson, Mississippi chapter of The Links, Inc. to raise funds to assist Hazel Brannon Smith. Smith was a publisher and journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for her editorials in support of the civil rights movement, a stance which resulted in her ostracism from local white society and her newspaper's eventual bankruptcy. Aaronetta Pierce (referred to h… more
Date: January 31, 1986
Creator: Gonzalez, Henry B. (Henry Barbosa), 1916-2000 & Andrews, Thelma
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Margaret Winn, Vernis Hudgins, and Clarice Jackson to Ed Glosson - January 8, 1986]

Description: Letter from Margaret Winn, Vernis Hudgins, and Clarice Jackson to Ed Glosson, the editor and publisher of the San Antonio Register, thanking him for his newspaper's coverage of the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the San Antonio chapter of The Links, Inc.
Date: January 8, 1986
Creator: Links, Inc. San Antonio Chapter.
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Margaret Winn and Vernis Hudgins to Michael Williams - February 7, 1986]

Description: Letter from Margaret Winn and Vernis Hudgins to Michael Williams of Champale, Inc. thanking them for underwriting half of the food costs at a reception celebrating the 25th anniversary of the San Antonio chapter of The Links, Inc. The upper left corner of the letter has been cut out.
Date: February 7, 1986
Creator: Links, Inc. San Antonio Chapter.
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Margaret Winn to Evonne H. Yancey - March 11, 1986]

Description: Letter from Margaret Winn to Evonne H. Yancey recommending Pat Russell McCloud for membership in the Atlanta chapter of The Links, Inc. McCloud is a former member of the San Antonio chapter who wishes to transfer her membership to the Atlanta chapter. Winn recommends McCloud without any reservations.
Date: March 11, 1986
Creator: Links, Inc. San Antonio Chapter.
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Margaret Winn to Dorothea W. Brown - March 11, 1986]

Description: Letter from Margaret Winn to Dorothea W. Brown about Edwina Murphy's membership in the The Links, Inc. Murphy was formerly a member of Brown's Austin chapter of The Links, Inc. but later transferred to Winn's San Antonio chapter. Murphy is now returning to the Austin chapter, and the San Antonio chapter will miss her deeply.
Date: March 11, 1986
Creator: Links, Inc. San Antonio Chapter.
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Belle Wheelan to Mary P. Douglass - September 11, 1986]

Description: Letter from Belle Wheelan to Mary P. Douglass. Members of the San Antonio chapter of The Links, Inc. were unable to attend a workshop at the national assembly where a financial handbook was distributed. Wheelan is requesting a handbook for the chapter and would also like to know whether the chapter or chapter members owe money for a group picture taken at the assembly.
Date: September 11, 1986
Creator: Links, Inc. San Antonio Chapter.
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Margaret Winn to Dr. Earl Lewis - October 29, 1986]

Description: Letter from Margaret Winn to Dr. Earl Lewis, professor at Trinity University. The San Antonio chapter of The Links, Inc. recommends Rev. Claude Black, Harry Burns, R. A. Callies, C. Thompson Harris, S. T. Scott, Leonadas Watson, and Bill Sinkin as nominees for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Distinguished Achievement Award.
Date: October 29, 1986
Creator: Links, Inc. San Antonio Chapter.
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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