Guide to the Manuel Ruiz Papers,
1931-1986
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Guide to the Manuel Ruiz Papers,
1931-1986
Collection number: M0295
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, California
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- Department of Special Collections
- Green Library
- Stanford University Libraries
- Stanford, CA 94305-6004
- Phone: (650) 725-1022
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- Date Completed:
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© 1998 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Manuel Ruiz Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1931-1986
Collection number: Special Collections M0295
Creator: Manuel, Ruiz
Extent:
13.25 linear ft.
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions:
None.
Publication Rights:
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Provenance:
Gift of Manuel Ruiz, Jr., 1978-1986.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item] Manuel Ruiz Papers, M0295, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
ABSTRACT
Correspondence, minutes, agendas, reports, articles, notes, statements, newsclippings, financial records, and photographs.
The papers document Ruiz's participation in Cultura Panamericana, Inc. and the Coordinating Committee for Latin American Youth
during the 1940s, and the Mexican American Political Association and War on Poverty, Inc. during the 1960s. Also included
are subject files on civil rights, Mexican Americans and education, police-community relations, and administration of justice.
Primarily in English, with some material in Spanish.
BIOGRAPHY
Manuel Ruiz, Jr. was born in Los Angeles on July 25, 1905. He and his parents, who had come to Southern California from Mazatlan,
Mexico, resided in the Belvedere Gardens section of East Los Angeles. Ruiz graduated from Manual Arts High School in 1923
where he distinguished himself as captain of the track and debate teams, concert master of the school orchestra, and class
valedictorian. At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, he continued his participation in track and debate;
he also joined Sigma Phi Epsilon, a social fraternity, and Gamma Eta Gamma, a legal fraternity. He received the A.B. in law
in 1927 and the L.L.B. (graduate law degree) in 1930. Ruiz was admitted to the practice of law in California that same year.
In an interview conducted in 1972 (Box 1, Folder 9), Ruiz recalled that racial prejudice kept him from joining an established
Los Angeles firm, "Fortunately for me I was not acceptable in a regular law firm although I had good grades --I was almost
a straight A student --I had to start a law practice on my own." He rented a two-room, forty dollar a month office, and did
his own secretarial work. Ruiz pursued a specialty in international private law and was admitted to the Bar in Chihuahua,
Mexico, in 1932. Later his brother, Alexander, became a member of the firm. Ruiz sought to join the Federal Bureau of Investigation
to do undercover war work in Latin America, but instead he spent the World War II years in Los Angeles as a community organizer
and activist. The firm belief that friendship and solidarity among the American republics was integral to the Allied Forces'
war efforts led Ruiz to become a founding member and executive secretary of Cultura Panamericana, Inc. in 1940. The goals
of the 1,000 member group included the promotion of interest in inter-American culture and cultural exchange, support for
bicultural conferences and programs, and the establishment of a Pan-American cultural center and library in Los Angeles. The
war years witnessed a rising tide of California racism and xenophobia. Young Hispanics in their flashy zoot suits offered
convenient targets for racially-motivated violence by members of the military and blatant prejudice by the public at large.
In his capacity as chairman of the Citizens Committee for Latin American Youth (a group appointed by the Los Angeles County
Board of Supervisors to improve the living and working conditions of young Hispanics), Ruiz was involved in the defense of
members of the 38th Street Club, twenty-two of whom were convicted of criminal conspiracy in the death of Jose Diaz in a 1942
incident which came to be known as the Sleepy Lagoon Case. The Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee, which included such prominent
community leaders as Luisa Moreno, Josefina Fierro de Bright, Bert Corona and Carey McWilliams, succeeded in obtaining a reversal
of the verdict by the District Court of Appeals in October, 1944, after the defendants had spent two years in prison. Ruiz
published his succinct analysis of the juvenile delinquency problem and suggested detailed steps to ameliorate it in "Latin-American
Juvenile Delinquency in Los Angeles: Bomb or Bubble!" (Crime Prevention Digest, vol. 1, no. 13, Dec., 1942). With Eduardo
Quevedo and others, Ruiz founded the Coordinating Council for Latin American Youth (CCLAY), a loose coalition of youth groups
which worked informally in clubs and sports teams to help teenagers improve their economic and educational situations and
cooperated with law enforcement and social agencies to prevent juvenile delinquency. Ruiz was active as secretary of, and
attorney for, CCLAY from 1941 to 1946. He was also appointed by Governor Earl Warren to the California Committee on Youth
in Wartime (later the California Youth Committee) in 1943 and served until 1947. Despite the efforts of CCLAY and similar
groups, zoot suiters and servicemen battled in the East Los Angeles barrio in early June, 1943. The press gave sensational
front-page coverage to the so-called Pachuco or Zoot Suit Riots and blamed Mexican American youths for
the fighting. Authorities, including Los Angeles mayor Fletcher Brown, acted slowly to end the violence. Mexican Americans,
Blacks and Filipinos were beaten, and more than 600 were arrested without cause before pressure by the Mexican government
and U.S. federal authorities brought an end to the inactivity of mayor Brown and the military police. In 1963 Ruiz joined
the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) which had been formed five years earlier in Phoenix, after the defeat of
Democratic candidate Henry P. Lopez in the California secretary of state contest. The founders realized that Mexican Americans
could not depend on either major party to champion their interests. The association assumed a more concrete form at a conference
in Fresno, California in April, 1960, and Congressman Eduardo Roybal of Los Angeles became its first president. Ruiz became
involved at the time of MAPA's incorporation on May 2, 1963, and he helped to draft the by-laws. MAPA was bipartisan and decentralized,
with chapters organized within state assembly districts for the purpose of electing Mexican American and sympathetic candidates,
registering voters, and sponsoring political education seminars and publications. The membership was predominantly young,
urban and middle class. MAPA organized VIVA Kennedy clubs to support John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential race, supported
an unsuccessful drive to incorporate East Los Angeles as a separate city in 1961, and played a major role in the election
of John Moreno and Phillip Soto to the state assembly in 1962. Ruiz assumed responsibility as a member of the MAPA Organizational
Committee and the Executive Board; he was also elected legal counsel for the California and Arizona state MAPA organizations.
In the mid-1960s he served as publisher and principal financial supporter of the short-lived newspaper The Voice of the Spanish-Speaking
People. Although Eduardo Quevedo, Bert Corona and most other members of the MAPA hierarchy were Democrats, Ruiz maintained
his membership in the Republican Party. In 1964 he accepted the position of National Chairman, Hispanic Division, of the Republican
National Committee during Barry Goldwater's unsuccessful bid for the presidency. From 1965 to 1968 Ruiz served as secretary
to the board of directors and as legal counsel to War on Poverty, Inc. This non-profit corporation was founded to stimulate
grass-roots community action to address urban and rural poverty and to initiate programs to raise the living standards of
low-income families. War on Poverty, Inc. was successful in attracting sizeable grants from the United States Department of
Labor to fund the Educational Resources Information Service (1966-1968) and the Manpower Opportunities Project (1966-1968).
The former, funded by a grant of $48,000, was designed to help low-income youth in Los Angeles County obtain jobs, loans,
and scholarship funds which would allow them to attend college. The Manpower Opportunities Project (MOP), based in Fresno
and serving the Stockton, San Jose, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Fresno areas, was funded by a Department of Labor grant
of $400,000. MOP's efforts were aimed toward a demonstration project to provide low-income Hispanics with assistance in job
placement and training. Both programs emphasized the need for counseling, higher education, on-the-job training, and placement
services in order to reduce the unemployment rate. Neither project was successful in attracting continued financial support
after federal funding ceased. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Ruiz served as a member of the board of directors of the Legal
Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. In 1972 he authored (and privately printed) Mexican American Legal Heritage in the Southwest;
a second edition appeared in 1974. Ruiz's lifelong interest in education and law was recognized by President Richard M. Nixon
who appointed him to the United States Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) in 1970. The Commission, an independent, bipartisan,
fact-finding agency created by Congress in 1957, studies legal
developments which infringe on citizens' constitutional rights. Although it lacks enforcement powers, it reports its findings
directly to Congress and the President. Ruiz was a commissioner-designate when the USCCR released its report "Mexican Americans
and the Administration of Justice in the Southwest" in April, 1970. The 135-page document censured police misconduct, underrepresentation
of Hispanics on juries and in law enforcement agencies, abuse of bail regulations, and inadequate legal representation of
defendants in the five Southwestern states. It proposed eighteen steps for solving these problems. J. Edgar Hoover, chief
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, vigorously defended the FBI against the Commission's critique. Ruiz was instrumental
in bringing about the USCCR's investigation into the death of Ruben Salazar, a prominent Los Angeles Times reporter who was
killed by police on August 29, 1970 in the aftermath of the Chicano Moratorium Day riots in East Los Angeles. Ruiz's particular
interests as a commissioner included police brutality, prison conditions, school desegregation, and bilingual education. He
served on the commission for ten years. Manuel Ruiz is married to the former Claudia Scipper; they have one daughter. He maintains
a law office on South Spring Street in Los Angeles as he has for more than forty years.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The Manuel Ruiz, Jr. papers support research on such topics as organization of Hispanic communities, discrimination and segregation
in housing, employment and schooling, the administration of justice, police-community relations, and juvenile delinquency--each
topic important to an understanding of the Mexican American experience in Southern California during and following the Second
World War. The collection spans the years 1931 to 1984, with the bulk of the papers dating from 1940 to 1948 and 1963 to 1978.
There are almost no records from the decades of the 1930s and 1950s. The majority of the ten linear foot collection consists
of organizational records and subject files. There are minutes, agendas, reports, articles, correspondence, notes, statements,
newspaper clippings, financial records, by-laws and photographs. The collection is divided into six series: Personal and Biographical
Information, Writings of Manuel Ruiz, Jr., Political Files, Organizational Records, Subject Files, and Photographs.
SERIES I: PERSONAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Scope and Content Note
This brief series contains personal correspondence, resumes, Ruiz's notes on several of the organizations whose records are
included in this collection (written when the collection was donated to Stanford University Libraries), and miscellany. Among
the biographical items are: Ruiz's applications for employment with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Civil Service
Commission during World War II, correspondence with his long-time friend Eduardo Quevedo pertaining to Ruiz's induction into
the Mexican American Political Association in 1963, and the program for the installation of Ruiz as a member of the United
States Commission on Civil Rights.
SERIES II: WRITINGS OF MANUEL RUIZ, JR.
Scope and Content Note
The second series contains drafts of writings, speeches, articles published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal (a legal newspaper),
transcripts of radio programs (1942, 1943), and an oral history interview on Mexican land grants in California (1972). One
article of particular interest is "Latin-American Juvenile Delinquency in Los Angeles: Bomb or Bubble!" (Crime Prevention
Digest, Vol. 1, no. 13, Dec., 1942), which emphasized Ruiz's concerns and solutions for the problems of Hispanic youth in
the wake of the Sleepy Lagoon Murder trial.
SERIES III: POLITICAL FILES OF MANUEL RUIZ, JR.
Scope and Content Note
Ruiz was a member of the Republican Party and was involved in the presidential campaigns of both Nelson Rockefeller and Barry
Goldwater in 1964. Although Goldwater appointed him National Chairman, Hispanic Division, of the Republican National Committee,
there is only a single folder on the campaign. He supported Evelle Younger in his campaigns for public office in Los Angeles
and California in the 1960s. The political records include correspondence, reports, notes, campaign ephemera and newsclippings.
SERIES IV: ORGANIZATIONAL RECORDS
Scope and Content Note
The fourth series, which is by far the largest of the six, consists of records resulting from Ruiz's participation in numerous
community organizations. The series is divided into the following sub-series: Cultura Panamericana, Inc., the Coordinating
Council for Latin American Youth, other organizations, 1931-1956, Mexican American Political Association, War on Poverty,
Inc., and other organizations, 1964-1969.
Cultura Panamericana, Inc. was founded in Los Angeles in 1940, and numbered among its members Latin American consular representatives
and United States citizens who were interested in cultural exchange among their respective countries. Included in this sub-series
are the articles of incorporation and by-laws, correspondence, financial and membership records, printed programs, and the
planning documents for an inter-American cultural center and school for Los Angeles. Ruiz was a founder with Eduardo Quevedo
of the Coordinating Council for Latin American Youth. The founding documents, correspondence, financial and membership records,
minutes, newsclippings, notes and printed programs demonstrate the breadth of issues which CCLAY strove to address. Under
CCLAY's auspices, adult and teen-age representatives from many groups dealt with matters such as defense employment, job training,
recreational facilities and housing for minorities, police-community relations, and plans for community organizing in the
post-war period. CCLAY functioned from 1941 to 1948, and Ruiz served as its secretary and attorney from 1941 to 1946. Other
Organizations, 1931-1956 sub-series includes such youth, civil rights and cultural groups as the California Committee on Youth
in Wartime, 1943-1945 (later the California Youth Committee, 1945-1947); Circulo Mexicano, 1940-1943; Citizens' Committee
for Latin American Youth (to which Ruiz was appointed by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors), 1942-1944; Los Angeles
County Committee for Interracial Progress, 1943-1946; Los Angeles Youth Project, 1942-1947; Mexican Chamber of Commerce of
Los Angeles, 1943-1953; Southern California Council of Inter-American Affairs, 1943-1945; the President's Committee on Fair
Employment Practice, 1941-1946; and the Statewide Committee for a California Fair Employment Practices Commission, 1945-1946.
Ruiz's membership in the Mexican American Political Association dates from its incorporation in California in 1963. Records
from the state organization include by-laws, the constitution, convention programs, correspondence, records of the MAPA Executive
Board, rosters, and records pertaining to the newspaper, The Voice of The Spanish-Speaking People, 1965-1966. There are folders
on braceros, meetings with Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, civil rights, the Mexican-American Study Project at the University
of California at Los Angeles, and the Delano Grape Strike. Records from the regions and chapters are mostly limited to membership
rosters, although there are correspondence, newsletters and programs from the chapters in Los Angeles' 40th and 41st assembly
districts. The largest of the Organizational Records sub-series is entitled War On Poverty, Inc. Ruiz helped to found this
non-profit organization which was established in 1965 for the purpose of initiating programs to aid low-income persons in
urban and rural areas. War on Poverty, Inc. was successful in attracting start-up funding from the United States Department
of Labor and the Office of Economic Opportunity, and Ruiz, as secretary of the board of directors and legal counsel, was instrumental
in negotiating contracts and keeping projects in compliance with government guidelines. There are records from two of these
programs, the Educational Resources Information Service and the Manpower Opportunities Project. ERIS was a small-scale, demonstration
project operating in Los Angeles, which assisted young people in participating in post-secondary education and job training
programs. MOP, headed by Hector Abeytia, offered southern and central Californians job training and placement services. The
records from War on Poverty, Inc. and its projects are primarily contracts, correspondence, financial records, minutes and
reports. The final sub-series, Other Organizations, 1964-1969, contains single folders on three groups: the Fair Employment
Practices Commission, 1964-1969; Neighborhood Youth Corps, 1966-1967; and Youth Opportunities Foundation, 1964-1966. All reflect
interests which Ruiz had maintained since his early
days as a community organizer in the 1940s.
SERIES V: SUBJECT FILES
Scope and Content Note
The fifth series is divided into the following sub-series: Civil Rights; Miscellaneous Subjects, 1933-1957; Mexican Americans
and Education; Police-Community Relations; Administration of Justice; and Miscellaneous Subjects, 1967-1977. The Civil Rights
section consists of correspondence, reports, and newsclippings concerning racial discrimination, school segregation and legislation
about civil rights matters. There is some material pertaining to the Sleepy Lagoon Murder Case and the Zoot Suit Riots (Box
16, folders 5 and 6). Mexican Americans and Education, 1963-1978, contains correspondence, notes, reports and newsclippings
pertaining to the university teaching career of Dr. Manuel H. Guerra. As an outspoken critic of discrimination against Mexican
Americans in academic hiring and tenure decisions, he either resigned or was released from the University of Southern California,
Arizona State University and California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Ruiz became his confidant and supporter,
and their correspondence and notes from 1963 to 1977 provide insight into the problems experienced by a Mexican American professional
some thirty years after Ruiz himself was denied access to employment with an established law firm. The remainder of this sub-section
is concerned with the United States Commission on Civil Rights work in the areas of bilingual education and school desegregation.
The next sub-series, Police-Community Relations, 1967-1978, is notable for the information it provides on the death of Ruben
Salazar, a Los Angeles Times reporter who was killed when struck by a police tear gas container while covering the Chicano
Moratorium Day riots in East Los Angeles in August, 1970. At that time, Ruiz was a commissioner-designate of the United States
Commission on Civil Rights and was instrumental in convincing the Commission to make an inquiry into Salazar's death. The
Commission's report, "Police-Community Relations in East Los Angeles" (1970), and minutes of the Los Angeles County Commission
on Human Relations Law Enforcement and Police-Community Relations Committees, 1971-1972, are also located in this sub-series.
The treatment of prisoners, especially minorities, was an issue of particular interest to Ruiz. The Administration of Justice
sub-series focuses on this topic and on the USCCR's report entitled "Mexican Americans and the Administration of Justice in
the Southwest" (1970). There are also newsletters from the Mexican-American Self Help Group at McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary
in Washington state (1971-1973), information on the National Prison Project (1973-1974), and Ruiz's correspondence with prison
inmates (1969-1971).
SERIES VI: PHOTOGRAPHS
Scope and Content Note
There are three group photographs which include Manuel Ruiz, all dating from 1968 to 1977. The photographs of the Los Angeles
Public Library, circa 1940, were removed from the Cultura Panamericana, Inc. subseries. Cultura Panamericana considered securing
space there for its Latin American library and cultural center.
SERIES VII: OVERSIZED MATERIALS
Scope and Content Note
This series contains media archives whose size did not permit their storage among the rest of the collection.
SERIES I: PERSONAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION, 1939-1977
Box 1, Folder 1
Biographical information,
1939-1977
Box 1, Folder 2
Correspondence, Acuna-Equal
Box 1, Folder 3
Correspondence, Fierro de Bright-Los Angeles Times
Box 1, Folder 4
Correspondence, Marion-Romero
Box 1, Folder 5
Correspondence, Ruiz-Woman's
SERIES II: WRITINGS OF MANUEL RUIZ, JR., 1942-1980
Box 1, Folder 6
Drafts of writings and speeches,
1942-1980
Box 1, Folder 7
Drafts of writings and speeches,
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 8
Newspaper articles, Los Angeles Daily Journal,
1966
Box 1, Folder 9
Transcripts of interviews,
1942; 1943; 1972
SERIES III: POLITICAL FILES OF MANUEL RUIZ, JR., 1963-1973
Box 1, Folder 10
Goldwater, Barry, campaign,
1964
Box 1, Folder 11
"National Roster of Spanish-Surname Elected Officials and Selected Leaders,"
1972
Box 1, Folder 12
Rockefeller, Nelson, campaign,
1963-1969
Box 1, Folder 13
Younger, Evelle, campaign,
1965-1969
Box 1, Folder 14
Miscellaneous political papers,
1960-1973
Box , Folder
(for additional political material, see Box 21)
SERIES IV: ORGANIZATIONAL RECORDS, 1931-1977
Subseries A: Cultura Panamericana, Inc. 1940-1944
Box 2, Folder 1
Articles of Incorporation and By-laws,
1940
Box 2, Folder 2
Correspondence,
Mar.-Dec., 1940
Box 2, Folder 3
Correspondence,
Jan.-May, 1941
Box 2, Folder 4
Correspondence,
June, 1941-Oct., 1942
Box 2, Folder 5
Correspondence,
Mar., 1943-Apr., 1944
Box 2, Folder 6
Cultural Center, requests for funds, (photographs moved to Box 20, Folder 11)
1940-1941
Box 2, Folder 7
Financial records,
1940-1944
Box 2, Folder 8
Membership rosters, address lists,
ca. 1940-1944
Box 2, Folder 9
Pan-American School,
1942
Subseries B: Coordinating Council for Latin American Youth, 1941-1948
Box 2, Folder 11
Articles of Incorporation, Constitution and By-laws, Statement of Purpose,
1941-1943
Box 2, Folder 12
Correspondence, out-going,
1941
Box 2, Folder 13
Correspondence, out-going,
1942
Box 2, Folder 14
Correspondence, out-going,
1943
Box 2, Folder 15
Correspondence, out-going,
1944
Box 2, Folder 16
Correspondence, out-going,
1945
Box 2, Folder 17
Correspondence, out-going,
1946-1948
Box 2, Folder 18
Correspondence, in-coming, Aguilar-County
Box 2, Folder 19
Correspondence, in-coming, Diaz-Huerta
Box 2, Folder 20
Correspondence, in-coming, Inter-American-Quevedo
Box 3, Folder 1
Correspondence, in-coming, Ramos-Young
Box 3, Folder 2
Defense employment and job training for aliens,
1941-1943
Box 3, Folder 3
Defense housing for aliens,
1942
Box 3, Folder 4
Ephemera (mostly business cards)
n.d.
Box 3, Folder 5
Financial records,
1941-1945
Box 3, Folder 12
Police, CCLAY and community relations,
1944-1945
Box 3, Folder 13
Postwar Planning Congress,
1945
Box 3, Folder 16
Rosters and ballots,
1942-1944
Subseries C: Other Organizations, 1931-1956
Box 4, Folder 1
California Committee on Youth in Wartime,
1943-1944
Box 4, Folder 2
California Committee on Youth in Wartime
1945
Box 4, Folder 3
California Youth Committee,
1945-1946
Box 4, Folder 4
California Youth Committee,
1947
Box 4, Folder 5
Circulo Mexicano,
1940-1943
Box 4, Folder 6
Citizens' Committee for Latin American Youth
1942-1944
Box 4, Folder 7
Comite de Beneficencia Mexicana,
1931-1946
Box 4, Folder 8
Comite Pro-Damnificados de Mazatlan,
1943
Box 4, Folder 9
Los Angeles County Committee for Interracial Progress,
1943-1946
Box 4, Folder 10
Los Angeles County Committee on Human Relations,
1946
Box 4, Folder 11
Los Angeles County Coordinating Council Excutive Board,
1942-1947
Box 4, Folder 12
Los Angeles Youth Project,
1942-1945
Box 4, Folder 13
Los Angeles Youth Project,
1946-1947
Box 4, Folder 14
Mexican Athletic Association (and other amateur athletic groups),
1937-1944
Box 4, Folder 15
Mexican Businessmen's Cooperative,
1945-1947
Box 5, Folder 1
Mexican Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles,
1943-1953
Box 5, Folder 2
Museum of Immigration,
1955-1956
Box 5, Folder 3
Pan-American Trade School,
1943
Box 5, Folder 4
President's Committee of Fair Employment Practice,
1941-1946
Box 5, Folder 5
Public Education Human Relations Committee, Los Angeles City Schools,
1948-1951
Box 5, Folder 6
Public Education Human Relations Committee, Los Angeles City Schools
1952
Box 5, Folder 7
Southern California Council of Inter-American Affairs,
1943-1945
Box 5, Folder 8
Southern California Inter-American Council,
1941-1943
Box 5, Folder 9
Statewide Committee for a California Fair Employment Practices Commission,
1945-1946
Box 5, Folder 10
Constitutions, By-laws and Articles of Incorporation, miscellaneous groups,
1940s
Box 5, Folder 11
Membership lists, miscellaneous groups,
1940s
Box 5, Folder 12
Programs, miscellaneous groups,
1940s (1)
Box 5, Folder 13
Programs, miscellaneous groups,
1940s (2)
Subseries D: Mexican American Political Organization, 1962-1977
Box 6, Folder 1
Articles of Incorporation,
1963
Box 6, Folder 2
Balance sheets,
Sept., 1968-July, 1969
Box 6, Folder 4
Brown, Governor Edmund G., meetings with MAPA
1964-1966
Box 6, Folder 5
Brown, Governor Edmund G., meetings with MAPA, speeches and testimony,
1965-1966
Box 6, Folder 6
By-laws/State Constitution,
1961
Box 6, Folder 7
By-laws/State Constitution,
1963
Box 6, Folder 8
By-laws/State Constitution,
1965
Box 6, Folder 9
By-laws/State Constitution,
1966
Box 6, Folder 10
By-laws/State Constitution,
1967
Box 6, Folder 11
By-laws/State Constitution,
1968
Box 6, Folder 12
By-laws/State Constitution,
1971
Box 6, Folder 13
By-laws/State Constitution,
1973
Box 6, Folder 14
California Department of Employment meetings with House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor,
July, 1965; June, 1966
Box 7, Folder 7
Convention, Endorsing, National,
1968
Box 7, Folder 8
Convention, Endorsing, National and State,
1964
Box 7, Folder 9
Convention, Endorsing, State,
1966
Box 7, Folder 10
Coordinating Council for Hispanic-American Unity,
1965
Box 7, Folder 11
Correspondence,
1964-1967
Box 7, Folder 12
Correspondence,
1968-1974
Box 7, Folder 13
Correspondence, internal,
1963-1967
Box 7, Folder 14
Correspondence, internal,
1968-1972
Box 7, Folder 15
Executive Board, meeting announcement,
1963
Box 7, Folder 16
Executive Board, meetings,
June, July, Dec., 1964
Box 7, Folder 17
Executive Board, meetings,
Apr., Oct., 1965
Box 7, Folder 18
Executive Board, meetings,
May, June, Sept., Dec., 1966
Box 7, Folder 19
Executive Board, meetings,
Feb., May, June, July, Oct., Dec., 1967
Box 7, Folder 20
Executive Board, meetings,
Jan., Apr., May, June, July, Sept., Nov., Dec., 1968
Box 8, Folder 3
Meetings (unidentified),
1964-1969
Box 8, Folder 4
Mexican-American Legislative Conference,
Mar., 1967
Box 8, Folder 5
Mexican-American Study Project, UCLA,
1964-1967
Box 8, Folder 7
Officers' installation,
1972
Box 8, Folder 8
Open Resolution to the President of the United States on Civil Disobedience and Riot Investigations,
1965
Box 8, Folder 9
Rosters, state and regional officers,
1964-1968
Box 8, Folder 10
Statement on the Delano Strike,
Nov., 1965
Box 8, Folder 12
The Voice of the Spanish-Speaking People, accounts payable,
1965-1966
Box 8, Folder 13
The Voice of the Spanish-Speaking People, accounts receivable,
1965-1966
Box 8, Folder 14
The Voice of the Spanish-Speaking People, correspondence, general,
Dec., 1965-Mar., 1966
Box 8, Folder 15
The Voice of the Spanish-Speaking People, correspondence, general,
Apr. 1966-Mar. 1967
Box 8, Folder 16
The Voice of the Spanish-Speaking People, financial records,
1965-1966
Box 8, Folder 17
"La Voz de MAPA" (newsletter),
1971-1972
Subseries E: Mexican American Political Association, 1964-1973
Box 8, Folder 19
New Mexico MAPA,
1965-1968
Box 9, Folder 1
Northern Region,
1965-1970
Box 9, Folder 2
Southern Region,
1964-1969
Box 9, Folder 3
By-laws, model for chapters,
1966-1967
Box 9, Folder 4
Chapters, Blythe, Coachella Valley, Compton, Corona
Box 9, Folder 5
Chapters, Fremont, Fresno, Hanford
Box 9, Folder 6
Chapters, Los Angeles, 40th Assembly District,
1966-1973
Box 9, Folder 7
Chapters, Los Angeles, "Illume" (newsletter),
1971-1972
Box 9, Folder 8
Chapters, Los Angeles County, 41st Assembly District,
1966-1967
Box 9, Folder 9
Chapters, Monterey, Napa, National City
Box 9, Folder 10
Chapters, Oakland, Pico Rivera
Box 9, Folder 11
Chapters, Roseville, Sacramento-East Yolo, San Bernardino, San Francisco
Box 9, Folder 12
Chapters, San Jose, Sonoma, Ventura County, West Valley
Box 9, Folder 13
Rosters, Bakersfield-Escondido
Box 9, Folder 14
Rosters, Fremont-Irwindale
Box 10, Folder 1
Rosters, Los Angeles-National City
Box 10, Folder 2
Rosters, Oakland-Redlands
Box 10, Folder 3
Rosters, Richmond-San Jose
Box 10, Folder 4
Rosters, San Luis Obispo-Woodland
Box 10, Folder 5
Rosters, Unassigned location
Box , Folder
(for additional MAPA materials, see Box 22)
Subseries F: War On Poverty, Inc., 1965-1968
Box 10, Folder 6
Articles of Incorporation,
1965-1966
Box 10, Folder 7
Board of Directors, correspondence,
1965-1967
Box 10, Folder 8
Board of Directors, minutes,
Mar. 1965-June 1966
Box 10, Folder 9
Board of Directors, minutes,
July 1966-Jan. 1968
Box 10, Folder 10
Board of Directors, rosters,
n.d.
Box 10, Folder 12
Contract between War on Poverty, Inc., and the United States Department of Labor,
1966-1968
Box 10, Folder 13
Correspondence and contracts between War on Poverty, Inc., and the Economic and Youth Opportunities Agency of Greater Los
Angeles,
Mar.-Dec. 1966
Box 10, Folder 14
Correspondence and contracts between War on Poverty, Inc., and the Economic and Youth Opportunities Agency of Greater Los
Angeles,
Jan.-June 1967
Box 11, Folder 1
Correspondence and contracts between War on Poverty,
July, 1967-July 1968
Box 11, Folder 2
EYOA, Joint Powers Agreement,
1965
Box 11, Folder 3
EYOA, "The War Against Poverty in Los Angeles,"
1967
Box 11, Folder 4
Financial records, audit,
1967
Box 11, Folder 5
Financial records, quarterly tax returns,
1966-1967
Box 11, Folder 6
Financial records, quarterly tax returns,
1968
Box 11, Folder 7
Financial records, statement of financial condition,
June-Dec. 1966
Box 11, Folder 8
Grant application, Community Action Program
1965
Box 11, Folder 9
Grant application, Community Action Program, Exhibits 1-5 (background information),
1965
Box 11, Folder 10
Grant application, Community Action Program, Exhibit 6-8 (maps),
1965
Box 11, Folder 11
Grant application, Community Action Program, Exhibit 9 (resumes),
1965
Box 11, Folder 12
Grant application, Community Action Program, Exhibits 10-11 (staffing plan),
1965
Box 12, Folder 1
Grant application, Community Action Program, letters of support,
1965
Box 12, Folder 2
Unemployment insurance, California state,
1966-1968
Box 12, Folder 4
Accounting memoranda,
1967
Box 12, Folder 6
Community conference component,
1966
Box 12, Folder 7
Equipment inventories,
1966-1967
Box 12, Folder 12
Local share receipts,
1966-1967
Box 12, Folder 13
Monthly financial reports and invoices,
1966-1967
Box 13, Folder 1
Personnel file,
1966-1967
Box 13, Folder 2
Program director, search for,
1966
Box 13, Folder 5
Proposals and contracts,
1966
Box 13, Folder 6
Proposals and contracts,
1967-1968
Box 13, Folder 8
Rodriguez, Jose M., program director,
1967
Box , Folder
(for additional ERIS material, see Box 22)
Subseries G: Manpower Opportunities Project, 1966-1971
Box 13, Folder 11
Closing out contract,
1971
Box 13, Folder 12
Correspondence,
Feb. 1966-Jan 1967
Box 13, Folder 13
Correspondence,
Feb.-July 1967
Box 13, Folder 14
Correspondence,
Aug. 1967-Mar. 1968
Box 14, Folder 2
In-service training,
Dec. 1966
Box 14, Folder 4
On-the-job training programs,
1967
Box 14, Folder 6
Project activities,
Feb.-Apr. 1967
Box 14, Folder 7
Project activities,
May-Nov. 1967
Box 14, Folder 8
Referrals to Job Corps,
1967
Box 14, Folder 10
Correspondence and memoranda,
May-Aug. 1966
Box 14, Folder 11
Correspondence and memoranda,
Sept.-Dec. 1966
Box 15, Folder 1
Correspondence and memoranda,
Jan.-Apr. 1967
Box 15, Folder 2
Correspondence and memoranda,
May-Oct. 1967
Box 15, Folder 3
Minutes of staff meetings,
Jan.-Aug. 1967
Box 15, Folder 4
Monthly reports,
Jan.-Aug. 1967
Box 15, Folder 5
Weekly staff reports, Carlos, Christopher (Director),
Dec. 1966-June 1967
Box 15, Folder 6
Weekly staff reports, Cordova, Sam,
Jan.-Aug. 1967
Box 15, Folder 7
Weekly staff reports, Sanchez, Waldo,
Jan.-Aug. 1967
Box 15, Folder 8
Weekly staff reports, Varela, Robert,
Jan.-July, 1967
Box 15, Folder 9
Weekly staff reports, Orange County, Gonzalez, Fidel,
Dec. 1966-June 1967
Box 15, Folder 10
Weekly staff reports, Riverside and Imperial Counties, Lozano, Bernie,
Feb.-Aug. 1967
Box 15, Folder 11
Weekly staff reports, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, Vidaurri, Marina,
Apr.-June 1967
Box 15, Folder 12
Weekly staff reports, San Diego County, Machado, Bill,
Feb.-Mar. 1967
Box , Folder
(for additional MOP material, see Box 22)
Subseries H: Other Organizations, 1964-1969
Box 15, Folder 13
Fair Employment Practices Commission,
1964-1969
Box 15, Folder 14
Neighborhood Youth Corps,
1966-1967
Box 15, Folder 15
Youth Opportunities Foundation,
1964-1966
Subseries A: Civil Rights, 1933-1957
Box 15, Folder 16
Delinquency, reports on,
1938-1943
Box 15, Folder 17
Diana Ballroom incident, notes,
1942
Box 16, Folder 1
Legislation, miscellaneous,
1943-1945
Box 16, Folder 2
Politics, miscellaneous,
1942-1947
Box 16, Folder 3
Racial discrimination and school segregation,
1936-1945
Box 16, Folder 4
Racial discrimination and school segregation,
1946-1948
Box 16, Folder 5
Sleepy Lagoon Murder Case, Zoot Suit Riots,
1943-1944
Box 16, Folder 6
Sleepy Lagoon Murder Case, and juvenile delinquency, newsclippings,
1942-1944
Box 16, Folder 7
Miscellany,
1933; 1940-1943
Subseries B: Mexican Americans and Education
Box 16, Folder 11
Bilingual Education, newsclippings,
1966-1976
Box 16, Folder 12
Bilingual Education, printed information,
1968-1970
Box 16, Folder 13
United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare,
1968-1977
Box 17, Folder 1
Guerra, Manuel H., California Mini-Corps,
1975-1976
Box 17, Folder 2
Guerra, Manuel H., correspondence,
1963-1966
Box 17, Folder 3
Guerra, Manuel H.,
1967-1976
Box 17, Folder 4
Guerra, Manuel H., Migrant Education Stanford Project,
1977
Box 17, Folder 5
Guerra, Manuel H., newsclippings,
1967
Box 17, Folder 6
Guerra, Manuel H., relations with Arizona State University,
1969-1976
Box 17, Folder 7
Guerra, Manuel H., relations with University of Southern California,
1966-1968
Box 17, Folder 8
Guerra, Manuel H., versus California Polytechnic State University,
San Luis Obispo, 1974-1977
Box 17, Folder 9
Guerra, Manuel H., versus California Polytechnic State University
1975, 1977
Box 17, Folder 10
School desegregation, newsclippings,
1970-1977
Box 17, Folder 11
United States Commission on Civil Rights, and education,
1972-1973
Box 17, Folder 12
United States Commission on Civil Rights, and education,
1974-1978
Box 17, Folder 13
United States Commission on Civil Rights, Bilingual Education Kit,
ca. 1970
Box 17, Folder 14
United States Commission on Civil Rights, hearings on school desegregation, Boston,
1975
Box 18, Folder 1
United States Commission on Civil Rights, hearings on school desegregation, Denver,
1975-1976
Box 18, Folder 2
United States Commission on Civil Rights, school desegregation,
1970-1977
Subseries C: Police-Community Relations, 1967-1978
Box 18, Folder 3
Commission on Human Relations, Law Enforcement and Police-Community Relations Committees, Los Angeles County, minutes,
1971-1972
Box 18, Folder 8
Salazar, Ruben, correspondence and notes concerning death of,
1970
Box 18, Folder 9
Salazar, Ruben, newsclippings concerning death of,
1970
Box 18, Folder 10
Salazar, Ruben, statement by Manuel Ruiz concerning death of,
1970
Box 18, Folder 11
Salazar, Ruben, writings,
1970
Box 18, Folder 12
United States Commission on Civil Rights, Police-Community Relations in East Los Angeles,"
1970
Box 18, Folder 13
Miscellaneous newsletters and printed matter,
1970-1977
Box 18, Folder 14
Miscellaneous reports, reprints and flyers,
1967-1970
Subseries D: Administration of Justice, 1969-1978
Box 19, Folder 1
Bilingual Courts Act,
1973-1974
Box 19, Folder 2
Campos Torres, Jose,
1977-1978
Box 19, Folder 3
Mexican-American Self Help Group, McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary, Washington,
1971
Box 19, Folder 4
Mexican-American Self Help Group,
1972-1973
Box 19, Folder 5
National Prison Project,
1973
Box 19, Folder 6
National Prison Project,
1974
Box 19, Folder 7
Prison inmates, correspondence with,
1969-1971
Box 19, Folder 8
Prison inmates, correspondence with,
1972
Box 19, Folder 9
Prisons, miscellany,
1970-1977
Box 19, Folder 10
United States Commission on Civil Rights, Mexican Americans and the Administration of Justice in the Southwest" (summary);
correspondence concerning the report,
1970-1971
Box 19, Folder 11
United States Commission on Civil Rights, Mexican Americans and the Administration of Justice in the Southwest" (summary);
newsclippings concerning the report,
1970
Box 19, Folder 12
United States Commission on Civil Rights, miscellany,
1970-1972
Box 20, Folder 1
United States Commission on Civil Rights, miscellany,
1973-1978
Box 20, Folder 2
United States Senate Bills and Legislative Testimony; S.B. 2963, 2964, "Criminal Justice Information Control,"
1974
Subseries E: Miscellaneous Subjects, 1962-1977
Box 20, Folder 3
Cabinet Committee on Mexican American Affairs, hearings,
Oct. 1967
Box 20, Folder 4
Migrant workers,
1967-1977
Box 20, Folder 5
United States Senate, Sub-committee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security
Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, "Extent of Subversion in the `New Left,'"
1970
Box 20, Folder 6
Miscellaneous newsletters and printed matter,
1962-1968
Box 20, Folder 10
People (three include Manuel Ruiz, Jr.),
1968, 1972, 1977, n.d.
Box 20, Folder 11
Los Angeles Public Library, (removed from Box 2, Folder 6)
ca. 1940
SERIES VII: OVERSIZED MATERIALS
Box 21, Folder 1
Educational Resource Information Service, general ledger,
1966-1967
Box 21, Folder 2
Lopez, J. Robert, candidate for Assembly, 40th District (Los Angeles), paste-up of campaign advertisement
1966;
Box 21, Folder 3
Manpower Opportunities Project, general ledger,
1966-1967
Box 21, Folder 4
Mexican American Political Association, Certificate of Merit, Los Angeles,
1966
Box 21, Folder 5
Mexican American Political Association, paste-up of campaign advertisement
n.d.
Box 21, Folder 6
Mexican American Political Association, pins
Box 21, Folder 7
Mexican American Political Association, The Voice of the Spanish-Speaking People, paste-up sheets for Vol. l, no. 5, pp. 1-4
Feb. 17, 1966
Box 21, Folder 8
Mexican American Political Association, Vol. 1, no. 7,
Mar. 1, 1966, pp. 1-8
Box 21, Folder 9
Mexican American Political Association, proofs, Vol. 1, no. 12,
May 19, 1966
Box 21, Folder 10
"Open Resolution Directed to the President of the United States and Executive Departments and Agencies, by National Hispanic
and Mexican-American Organizations on Civil Disobedience and Riot Investigations,"
n.d.
