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[Letter from Arlene J. Crewdson to Dr. Peter Wolkonsky - January 10, 1989]
Letter from Arlene J. Crewdson, artistic director of the O'Rourke Center for the Performing Arts, to Dr. Peter Wolkonsky. She sends word that she enjoyed reading Sterling Houston's play, A Brief History of American Song, but that her company will be unable to produce it due to prior commitments.
Date:
January 10, 1989
Creator:
Crewdson, Arlene J.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Card Invitation to Brian Prague's Birthday]
Card invitation to the birthday of Brian Prague sent to Jump-Start Performance Company, a threatre and performing arts company based in San Antonio, Texas. Date, time, and place is provided inside. The front of the card shows a stylized yellow sun with a face. Gold accents cover the sun rays as well as the outer trim of the card.
Date:
January 1997
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Artwork
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to Members of the TMCLC - January 28, 1975]
Letter from Mario Marcel Salas, president of the Black Coalition on Mass Media, to members of the Texas Ministers and Citizens Leadership Council. He sends them a packet of information regarding a dispute between his organization - the BCMM - and KAPE radio. In the rest of the letter he writes about the struggle to correct the instruments of oppression endured by the black community.
Date:
January 28, 1975
Creator:
Salas, Mario Marcel
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Mario Marcel Salas to Executive Committee - January 3, 1980]
Letter from Mario Marcel Salas of Organizations United for Eastside Development (OUED) to an executive committee. He discusses an anti-Ku Klux Klan march in the works; its potential benefits and drawbacks; and its organizer, Antonio Cabral, who has antagonized other civil rights organizations, including the OUED.
Date:
January 3, 1980
Creator:
Salas, Mario Marcel
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Press Conference Statement - January 25, 1986]
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
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[O.U.E.D. Executive Meeting Minutes - January 15, 1980]
Minutes for a January 1980 executive meeting of Organizations United for Eastside Development (OUED). Included in the descriptive account of the meeting is discussion on a march against the Ku Klux Klan, various speakers, as well as a number of clerical issues.
Date:
January 15, 1980
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Vivian Rudisill to Sterling Houston - January 07, 2002]
Letter from Vivian Rudisill to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She sends newspaper clippings featuring Houston, discusses holiday events, an upcoming gall bladder operation, and a forthcoming pictorial publication.
Date:
January 7, 2002
Creator:
Rudisill, Vivian
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Envelopes to and from Sally de Mattia - January 1995]
Two paper envelopes stapled together. The first is addressed to Sally de Mattia. The second is being sent by Sally, from Italy, to Sterling Houston at the Jump-Start Performance Company.
Date:
January 1995
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Theatre Flyer for Damien]
Theatre flyer for the play "Damien", starring Steve Wilhite as Father Damien de Veuster, the leper priest of Molokai. The play was put on four times at The Catholic University of America. Ticket prices, hours, dates, and other information have been included at the bottom. Postage on the back indicates that the flyer was sent to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright.
Date:
January 1996
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[E-mail from Arnold Aprill to Sterling Houston - January 17, 2002]
E-mail from Arnold Aprill to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. He has received a script for one of Houston's plays, Cameoland, and is writing to comment on several parts of the story. This includes notations on character development, music, and imagery.
Date:
January 17, 2002
Creator:
Aprill, Arnold
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[E-mail from Pam to Friends - January 14, 2002]
E-mail from Pam to friends regarding a storytelling project. She sends word to a number of those involved in the project that they have recently been awarded a fifty thousand grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The e-mail discusses upcoming travel plans and planning arrangements.
Date:
January 14, 2002
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Aubrey to Sterling Houston - January 23, 1996]
Letter from Aubrey to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She writes thanking him for participating in an exhibition titled Emerging from the Shadows: One City's Perspective on Homelessness. She includes two responses from attendees, who write positively about the show and share personal stories.
Date:
January 23, 1996
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Karen DeVinney to Sandra Mayo - January 31, 2003]
Letter from Karen DeVinney of the University of North Texas Press to Sandra Mayo, director of the Center for Multicultural and Gender Studies at Southwest Texas State University. In trying to publish a collection of plays by Sterling Houston, Mayo has submitted the work-in-progress to DeVinney and an anonymous reader. The reader's report is included after the letter, with the conclusion that the publication will be much richer with a few revisions. DeVinney hopes Mayo can make the revisions and resubmit.
Date:
January 31, 2003
Creator:
DeVinney, Karen
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Arlene J. Crewdson to Peter Wolkonsky - January 10, 1989]
Letter from Arlene J. Crewdson, artistic director of the O'Rourke Center for the Performing Arts, to Peter Wolkonsky. She writes that because of preexisting commitments, her and her company will be unable to produce a play by Sterling Houston - A Brief History of American Song. However, she is interested in reading other plays for possible future productions.
Date:
January 10, 1989
Creator:
Crewdson, Arlene J.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Mario Salas Booth During Martin Luther King March]
Photograph of booths during a January rally in San Antonio, Texas. The principal booth is that of Mario Salas, who is running for county commissioner. Mr. Salas stands underneath it wearing a green windbreaker. Edwina Salas, his wife, stands to the left while Angela Salas, a young girl in a vest and white shirt, stands to the right.
Date:
January 2002
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Mario, Edwina, and Angela Salas Inside Booth During Martin Luther King March]
Photograph of booths during a Martin Luther King March in San Antonio, Texas. The principal booth is that of Mario Salas, who is running for county commissioner. Mr. Salas stands underneath it wearing a green windbreaker. Edwina Salas, his wife, stands to the left while Angela Salas, a young girl in a vest and white shirt, stands to the right. Many other people are in attendance at other booths.
Date:
January 2002
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Mario Salas Leading Walk During Martin Luther King March]
Photograph of Mario Marcel Salas, San Antonio politician and civil rights leader, leading a walk during a Martin Luther King March. He wears a shirt advertising the event, a windbreaker, and holds a walkie-talkie on his left hand. A row of people are holding a large banner in the back.
Date:
January 2002
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Salas Family Inside Booth During Martin Luther King March]
Photograph of Mario Marcel Salas, San Antonio politician and civil rights leader, inside a booth during a Martin Luther King March. He is joined by his wife, Edwina Salas, on the left, and Angela Salas, on the right.
Date:
January 2002
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Sue Sende to Mario Marcel Salas - January 1, 1979]
Letter from journalist Sue Sende to Mario Marcel Salas of the Black Coalition on Mass Media. She writes to inform him of a recent publication - What's Behind the News? - she co-authored about media strategies and reform. A hand-written notation at the bottom of the letter requests that Mr. Salas send her information about the Black Coalition for research purposes taking place on the 2nd edition.
Date:
January 1, 1979
Creator:
Sende, Sue
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[List of Suggestions for KAPE Radio by the Black Coalition on Mass Media]
List of suggestions by the Black Coalition on Mass Media (BCMM) on the programming schedule of KAPE radio, a San Antonio-based radio station. Many of the proposals are meant to amend the grievances of the BCMM in regard to the station's treatment of the African-American community.
Date:
January 1979
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Tommy Calvert to Jerry Moon - January 10, 1979]
Letter from Tommy Calvert, research chairman of the Black Coalition on Mass Media (BCMM), to Jerry Moon, general manager of KAPE radio. He is sending the broadcasting station a few suggestions on how to best offer incentives to future employees who wish to remain in broadcasting.
Date:
January 10, 1979
Creator:
Calvert, Tommy
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Links Chapter Documentation: Newspaper copy item about Jackson, Mississippi chapter of The Links, Inc.]
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 here as A. M. Pierce) passed this unpublished copy of the article on to Margaret Winn, president of the San Antonio chapter. Includes handwritten notes.
Date:
January 31, 1986
Creator:
Gonzalez, Henry B. (Henry Barbosa), 1916-2000 & Andrews, Thelma
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Margaret Winn, Vernis Hudgins, and Clarice Jackson to Ed Glosson - January 8, 1986]
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.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Margaret Winn and Vernis Hudgins to The Groos National Bank - January 8, 1986]
Letter from Margaret Winn and Vernis Hudgins to The Groos National Bank thanking them for their financial contributions to the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the San Antonio chapter of The Links, Inc.
Date:
January 8, 1986
Creator:
Links, Inc. San Antonio Chapter.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History