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[Clipping: King holiday gets initial House OK]

Description: Newspaper clippings of the article, "King holiday gets initial House OK," in the Dallas Morning News, discussing the Texas House of Representatives passing of two bills, the first to make Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a paid holiday for state employees, and the second to lower the state tax on horse race wagering.
Date: May 23, 1991
Creator: Kilday, Anne Marie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

[Clipping: Italian-Americans, Hispanics irked by holiday change]

Description: Newspaper clipping of the article, "Italian-Americans, Hispanics irked by holiday change" in San Antonio Light, discussing the reactions of the Italian-American and Hispanic communities to replacement of Columbus Day with Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as an official paid holiday for state employees.
Date: May 28, 1991
Creator: San Antonio Light
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

[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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

[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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

[Flyer: Sharing the Vision of Nelson Mandela]

Description: Flyer for the event, Sharing the Vision of Nelson Mandela, sponsored by the San Antonio Mandela Project and held at Second Baptist Church on July 22, 1990. There are photos of Nelson Mandela and a woman wearing a head wrap under the title and an upraised fist in the lower right corner of the flyer.
Date: July 22, 1990
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

[Clipping: Civil Rights Activists Calls for MKL Holiday]

Description: Newspaper clipping of the article, "Civil Rights Activists Calls for MKL Holiday" in NOKOA - The Observer, discussing Mario Marcel Salas' address to the Texas State Senate Public Affairs Committee in support of a bill to officially recognized Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a paid state holiday.
Date: March 22, 1991
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

[Clipping: Freedom fighter eludes definition]

Description: Newspaper clipping of the editorial, "Freedom fighter eludes definition" in the San Antonio Light discussing America's involvement in violent revolutions in Nicaragua and Afghanistan and who is considered a freedom fighter by the American public. Cavazos also discusses the American general public's discomfort with Nelson Mandela's ties to Arafat, Castro, and Gadhafi and his refusal to disavow violence as an option in the fight to end apartheid in South Africa.
Date: July 22, 1990
Creator: Cavazos, R. Daniel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

[Clipping: Activist seeks holiday, or no Super Bowl]

Description: Newspaper clipping of the article "Activist seeks holiday, or no Super Bowl" in the San Antonio Light. The article discusses the plans of Mario Salas to request the National Football League boycott Texas as a potential Super Bowl location if the state does not make Martin Luther King, Jr. Day an official holiday.
Date: March 28, 1991
Creator: Chapin, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

[Clipping: VIA pressed to bypass Arizona meet]

Description: Newspaper clippings of the article, "VIA pressed to bypass Arizona meet," in the San Antonio Light discussing community efforts urging VIA Metropolitan Transit to boycott an Arizona transit conference due to Arizona's rejection of adopting Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as an official holiday.
Date: January 4, 1991
Creator: Hagerty, Vaugn & McAuliffe, Suzanne
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

[Clipping: Columbus still has his backers]

Description: 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.
Date: May 28, 1991
Creator: Root, Jay
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

[Clipping: Tasmanian Genocide]

Description: Magazine clipping of a letter to the editor, "Tasmanian Genocide," discussing Salas's intentions to advocate for rights on behalf of the Tasmanian people and the letter he wrote to the United Nations requesting them to look into Australia's human rights abuses.
Date: June 1993
Creator: Salas, Mario Marcel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas
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