[Clipping: Boycott urged to force state King holiday #2] (open access)

[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] (open access)

[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
72nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill No. 134 (open access)

72nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill No. 134

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to establishing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a state holiday. This is a copy faxed to Rick Green, with the note "Mario Marcel Salas copy 5/27/91" written at the top of the second page.
Date: May 27, 1991
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Rosa Parks in the Columbia Airport]

Photograph of Rosa Parks sitting in the Columbia, South Carolina airport with a younger woman standing next to her holding her hand. "Rosa Parks 1996, July 27 Columbia, S. C. airport passed on to me, Mario Salas, 3/30/2000" is written on the back of the photo.
Date: July 27, 1996
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Weatherford Grass Burr (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 8, Ed. 1 Monday, May 27, 1991 (open access)

The Weatherford Grass Burr (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 8, Ed. 1 Monday, May 27, 1991

Student newspaper of Weatherford High School in Weatherford, Texas that includes school news and information along with advertising.
Date: May 27, 1991
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History