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Black Leadership Position Paper

Description: Document discussing the Socialist Workers Party's actions, condemning their divisive actions, and supporting their termination from all activities of Latin-American assistance.
Date: April 18, 1981
Creator: Greene, Rick; Richardson, Lynda; Salas, Mario Marcel & Sanders, John H.
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
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
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

Speech at University of Texas-Austin against Israel Invasion of Lebanon

Description: Notes for a speech given at the University of Texas at Austin against Israel's invasion of Lebanon. The speaker is from the executive committee of Organizations United for Eastside Development, and is most likely Mario Salas. The speech discusses the racial discrimination in the United States and compares Israel's treatment of Palestinians to South Africa under apartheid.
Date: 1982?
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

[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
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
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

[Letter from Julia Kooken to John and Jo Stanford, March 23, 1964]

Description: Letter from Julia Kooken to John and Jo Stanford discussing a plan to flood the office of Ross Barnett with checks made out to a memorial fund for the family of Medgar Evers. The fund will support the Evers family while allowing Americans to express their position regarding Medgar Evers' death. There is a handwritten note at the bottom of the typed letter asking John and Jo to forgive the carbon copy and a list of other people Kooken sent the letter to.
Date: March 23, 1964
Creator: Kooken, Julia
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

[Clipping: Columbus-King holiday swap sparks ethnic groups' protest]

Description: Newspaper clipping of the article, "Columbus-King holiday swap sparks ethnic groups' protest" discussing the reaction of Hispanic and Italian-American cultural groups to the bill instituting Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a paid holiday and eliminating Columbus Day as a paid holiday.
Date: May 28, 1991
Creator: Associated Press
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

[Letter from John W. Stanford, Jr. to Rowland Watts, June 27, 1963]

Description: Letter from John W. Stanford, Jr. to Rowland Wattts discussing the federal charges filed against Stanford by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, the possibility of facing state level charges, and whether the American Civil Liberties Union is still willing to refer Stanford to a local attorney.
Date: June 27, 1963
Creator: Stanford, John W., Jr.
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

Neighborhoods First

Description: Publication of the Mario Salas Campaign for [San Antonio] City Council District 2, discussing community issues Salas advocates for and listing the endorsements he received from various community groups.
Date: unknown
Creator: Campaign Committee to Elect Mario Salas
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas
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