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[Letter from Bob Dean to Mario Marcel Salas, April 23, 1991]
Letter from Bob Dean to Mario Marcel Salas thanking Salas from his letter Mayor Kathryn J. Witmire urging support of a state holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. and stating that Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a paid holiday for the City of Houston.
Date:
April 23, 1991
Creator:
Dean, Bob
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: S. Africa benefit set for today]
Newspaper clipping of the article, "S. Africa benefit set for today," the San Antonio Light discussing the San Antonio Mandela Project's benefit to raise funds to buy food, medicine, and clothes for displaced South Africans.
Date:
July 22, 1990
Creator:
Delgado, Luz
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Ralph Dixon and Mario Salas, 1969]
Letter from Ralph Dixon and Mario Marcel Salas to grocers, food producers, and friends asking for donations of money, clothing, and food for the Breakfast for School Children Program in San Antonio. They include details of the program and a list of supplies they need to feed the children.
Date:
1969
Creator:
Dixon, Ralph & Salas, Mario Marcel
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Senate bill permits tickets for serious misdemeanors]
Newspaper clipping of the article, "Senate bill permits tickets for serious misdemeanors," in the San Antonio Express-News, discussing several bills being discussed in the Texas Senate, including a revision of tobacco laws, making Martin Luther King, Jr. Day an official holiday, and a bill which would allow police officers to issues tickets people charged with certain classes of misdemeanors rather than booking them into jail.
Date:
May 10, 1991
Creator:
Fuentes, Diana R. & Smith, Richard
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Eddie S. Funde to Mario M. Salas, March 30, 1978]
Letter from Eddie S. Funke to Mario M. Salas acknowledging the receipt of the news cuttings Salas had sent March 26, 1978. The letter is on the stationery of the African National Congress, South Africa.
Date:
March 30, 1978
Creator:
Funde, Eddie S.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Boycott urged to force state King holiday #2]
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.
Date:
March 27, 1991
Creator:
Garcia, James E.
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Boycott urged to force state King holiday #1]
Newspaper clipping of the first page of the article, "Boycott urged to force state King holiday," discussing a boycott by the National Football League to encourage Texas to make Martin Luther King Day a full holiday. The article quotes Mario Marcel Salas and Rev. R. A. Callies regarding their efforts in organizing the push for the holiday, and there is a photo of Mario Marcel Salas in front of a statue of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Date:
March 27, 1991
Creator:
Garcia, James E. & Kennedy, David
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: S. African blacks must fight oppression, ANC member says]
Newspaper clipping of the article, "S. African blacks must fight oppression, ANC member says," in the San Antonio Express-News discussing Lyndall Shope-Mafole's speech at a Sunday evening service celebrating Nelson Mandela's release from prison. The cited attendance number, "over 200" is underlined in blue ink and has an arrow from it to a handwritten note reading, "700."
Date:
July 23, 1990
Creator:
Garcia, Victor J.
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 21, 1982
Weekly newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 21, 1982
Creator:
Glosson, Edwin
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Part II: Plan for Retirement Now]
Newspaper clipping of the from the San Antonio Register, including the nameplate of the newspaper and a portion of the article, "Part II: Plan for Retirement Now." The article discusses the downsides of relying on social security and employers' pension plans and urges readers to begin saving independently.
Date:
June 28, 1990
Creator:
Glosson, Jacqueline
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Council [sc]raps VIA meeting]
Newspaper clippings of the article, "Council [sc]raps VIA meeting" in the San Antonio Express-News discussing a non-binding resolution passed by the San Antonio City Council urging VIA staffers not to attend a training conference in Tempe, Arizona because of Arizona's vote against a Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. The article also states the purpose and costs of attending the conference.
Date:
January 4, 1991
Creator:
Gonzalez, Susie Phillips
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Black Leadership Position Paper
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.
Object Type:
Paper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Jim Greenwood to Mario Marcel Salas, May 3, 1991]
Letter from Jim Greenwood to Mario Marcel Salas thanking Salas for sending Greenwood a copy of his letter to Mayor Whitmire urging the Houston City Council to make Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a paid, non-optional state holiday.
Date:
May 3, 1991
Creator:
Greenwood, Jim
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: VIA pressed to bypass Arizona meet]
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
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Gordon K. Haskell to John W. Stanford, Jr., May 21, 1964]
Letter from Gordon K. Haskell to John W. Stanford, Jr. thanking Stanford for his contribution to the American Civil Liberties Union and for the Stanford's offer to raise funds on behalf of the ACLU.
Date:
May 21, 1964
Creator:
Haskell, Gordon K.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Store guards given six-year sentences]
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
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Program: 69th San Antonio Branch National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Freedom Fund Dinner]
Program for the 69th San Antonio Branch NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner on October 12, 2008. The honorees were Harold McBride Tarver, Oliver W. Hill, Sr., Thomas C. Rockeymoore, Dr. Howard Anderson, Marvinette M. Smith, Tommy Calvert, and Mayor Ivy Ruth Taylor, and Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings was the speaker.
Date:
October 12, 2018
Creator:
Hill, Oliver W.; Sherfield, Mentoria Lewis & Greene, Maria Stevenson
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Funeral Program for Reverend Claude William Black, Jr., March 21, 2009]
Funeral program for Reverend Claude William Black, Jr., born November 28, 1916 and died March 13, 2009. The funeral was held March 21, 2009 at Mont Zion First Baptist Church, officiated by Reverend Otis I. Mitchell. Funeral arrangements were made through Sutton and Sutton Mortuary, Inc. and he was buried in Meadowlawn Memorial Park in San Antonio, Texas.
Date:
March 21, 2009
Creator:
Hudspeth, Armeania "Mimi"
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
At the Funeral of Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi
Pamphlet discussing the marches in Jackson, Mississippi following the death of Medgar Evers.
Date:
July 1963
Creator:
Jackson, James E.
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Eddie Bernice Johnson to Mario Marcel Salas, April 9, 1991]
Letter from Eddie Bernice Johnson to Mario Marcel Salas thanking Salas for a copy of his letter to Mayor Kathy Whitmire in support of Senate Bill 134, designating the third Monday in January Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Date:
April 9, 1991
Creator:
Johnson, Eddie Bernice, 1934-
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Eddie Bernice Johnson to Mario Marcel Salas, April 9, 1991] -- copy
Letter from Eddie Bernice Johnson to Mario Marcel Salas thanking Salas for his letter in support of Senate Bill 134, designating the third Monday in January Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Date:
April 9, 1991
Creator:
Johnson, Eddie Bernice, 1934-
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Statement by Barbara Jordan
Statement by Barbara Jordan for the opening ceremony of the Barbara Jordan Community Center in San Antonio, Texas. The statement was read by Mario Marcel Salas.
Date:
November 6, 1983
Creator:
Jordan, Barbara
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John F. Kennedy to William N. Purdy, December 6, 1962]
Letter from John F. Kennedy to William N. Purdy thanking Purdy for his service on September 30th in Oxford, Mississippi. There is a note at the top of the letter reading, "Protected Blacks from KKK attack." The letter is on White House stationery.
Date:
December 6, 1952
Creator:
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: King holiday gets initial House OK]
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
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History