box 1, folder 1-3, box 2
Zoot Suit Riots
1943-1945, 1997, 2003, 2007, 2017
Scope and Contents
Includes: letters; photographs; a greeting card; Newsweek article "Zoot Suits and Service Stripes: Race Tension Behind Bars";
Crime Detective "I Boosed the Zoot Suit Gang"; "Second Report Un-American Activities in California" (1945); "Zoot Suit a
new rock musical" (DVD); articles, Playbill, programs, poster, t- shirt [located in box 2], and DVD related to "Zoot Suit"
by Luis Valdez; Homeboys Chicano Zoot Suit t-shirt [located in box 2]; drawing of a [zoot suiter being slugged by a sailor],
and Cherry Poppin Daddies "Zoot Suit Riot" sheet music.
box 1, folder 12
Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee- press release; statement of Carey McWilliams, national chairman of the Sleepy Lagoon Defense
Committee, regarding decision in sleepy lagoon case
October 4, 1944
box 1, folder 4, box 2
articles, booklet, and t-shirt regarding killing of Ruben Salazar
1966, 1970, 1971
Physical Location: t-shirt is located in box 2.
box 1, folder 5-6
music- general file
1968, 1987, circa 1970s; undated
Scope and Contents
Includes: signed promotional photograph of Linda Ronstadt and Daniel Valdez; photograph of Carlos Santana, Daniel Valdez and
others; Santana Freedom Concert program; vinyl records- "Cancion Del Partido De Los Pobres", "Adios A Jenaro Vasquez" Judith
Reyes; White Front "Top 30 Hits!" [broadside]
box 1, folder 7
education- general file
1970-1971, 1980, 2006
Scope and Contents
Includes: "Power to the People" Cal State rally flyer; 'Mexican Students Por La Raza" by Juan Gomez-Quinones; "Unite the Chicano
Student Movement"; Wokers Solidarity Committee "Celerbate Moratorium" flyer; "Walkout" (DVD).
box 1, folder 8
immigration- general file
1977, 1989, circa 1970s
Scope and Contents
Includes: flyers and pamphlets related to [President] Carter's immigration plan; "Unite for Unconditional Amnesty" [booklet];
Central American Refugee Committees (CRECEN) "No Human Being is Illegal" [flyer]; "Forum Immigration and Public Policy" sponsored
by MECHA [flyer]; California Conference on Immigration and Public Policy program.
box 1, folder 9-11, box 2
Chicano movement- general file
1958; 1965; 1970; 1974; 1979; 1980-1985; 1989, 1997; 2010; undated
Language of Material: English, Spanish; Castilian.
Scope and Contents
Includes: material related to California Dream Act; Committee for Yes on Baseball; event flyers- "El Grito De Lares! With
the Puerto Rican Community", "Chicana Artist Drawing Workshop", Committee for International Women's Day, "Central America:
Whose War Is It Anyway?" (CSUDH), "No Draft! No US Intervention in El Salvador!", "Ricardo Chavez Ortiz in Person", Free Freddy
[De La Rosa] demonstration, and others; Mexican-American Political Association "Vote for Hubert Humphrey"; Nicaragua Calenda
(1985); Notes from the Brown Underground: Criminalization, The Xicana/o Movement, and Decoding Mass Media; Sports Illustrated
"Latin Conquest of the Big Leagues"; Cinco de mayo pins; "Boulevard Nights" (DVD) [located in box 2]; Chicano and Proud "Foundation
for Change Inc." leaflet; Trashman Comics No. 1; "Low Rider Magazine"(four issues) [located in box 2].
box 2
T-Shirts
1990; 1992; 2008; undated
Scope and Contents
Includes: Chicano Batman; El Teatro Campesino- Tour 1992, La Virgen Del Tepeyac; Support The Dream Act; Legalize LA Immigration
Reform Now!; Orange County Dream Team; Viva La Mujer; Undocumedia "Here to Stay"; shirts featuring images of Simon Bolivar,
a sugar skull, and Frida Kahlo; East Los Angeles 1990 National Chicano Moratorium; Resist!; Si Se Puede.
