Guide to the Manuel Ruiz Papers, 1931-1986 M0295
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Department of Special Collections and University Archives
1998
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Manuel Ruiz Papers
Identifier/Call Number: M0295
Identifier/Call Number: 1031
Physical Description:
16.25 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1931-1986
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information on paging collections, see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/spc.
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.
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.
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.
Preferred Citation:
Manuel Ruiz Papers, M0295, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Provenance:
Gift of Manuel Ruiz, Jr., 1978-1986.
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.
Access Restrictions:
None.
SERIES III: POLITICAL FILES OF MANUEL RUIZ, JR. 330365
Scope and Contents 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 330363
Scope and Contents 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 330361
Scope and Contents 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 330359
Scope and Contents 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 330357
Scope and Contents 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 330345
Scope and Contents
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.
Box 1, folder 1
Biographical information, 330355
1939-1977
Box 1, folder 2
Correspondence, Acuna-Equal 330353
Box 1, folder 3
Correspondence, Fierro de Bright-Los Angeles Times 330351
Box 1, folder 4
Correspondence, Marion-Romero 330349
Box 1, folder 5
Correspondence, Ruiz-Woman's 330347
SERIES II: WRITINGS OF MANUEL RUIZ, JR., 1942-1980 330335
Scope and Contents
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.
Box 1, folder 6
Drafts of writings and speeches, 330343
1942-1980
Box 1, folder 7
Drafts of writings and speeches, 330341
undated
Box 1, folder 8
Newspaper articles, Los Angeles Daily Journal, 330339
1966
Box 1, folder 9
Transcripts of interviews, 330337
1942; 1943; 1972
SERIES III: POLITICAL FILES OF MANUEL RUIZ, JR., 1963-1973 330321
Scope and Contents
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.
Box 1, folder 10
Goldwater, Barry, campaign, 330333
1964
Box 1, folder 11
"National Roster of Spanish-Surname Elected Officials and Selected Leaders," 330331
1972
Box 1, folder 12
Rockefeller, Nelson, campaign, 330329
1963-1969
Box 1, folder 13
Younger, Evelle, campaign, 330327
1965-1969
Box 1, folder 14
Miscellaneous political papers, 330325
1960-1973
Box not specified, folder data_value_missing_3c7aa0e54564c3e52f68d060b98f3a59
(for additional political material, see Box 21) 330323
SERIES IV: ORGANIZATIONAL RECORDS, 1931-1977 329861
Scope and Contents
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.
Subseries A: Cultura Panamericana, Inc. 1940-1944 330299
Box 2, folder 1
Articles of Incorporation and By-laws, 330319
1940
Box 2, folder 2
Correspondence, 330317
Mar-Dec, 1940
Box 2, folder 3
Correspondence, 330315
Jan-May, 1941
Box 2, folder 4
Correspondence, 330313
Jun, 1941-Oct, 1942
Box 2, folder 5
Correspondence, 330311
Mar, 1943-Apr, 1944
Box 2, folder 6
Cultural Center, requests for funds, (photographs moved to Box 20, Folder 11) 330309
1940-1941
Box 2, folder 7
Financial records, 330307
1940-1944
Box 2, folder 8
Membership rosters, address lists, 330305
circa 1940-1944
Box 2, folder 9
Pan-American School, 330303
1942
Box 2, folder 10
Programs, 1940-1941 330301
Subseries B: Coordinating Council for Latin American Youth, 1941-1948 330243
Box 2, folder 11
Articles of Incorporation, Constitution and By-laws, Statement of Purpose, 330297
1941-1943
Box 2, folder 12
Correspondence, out-going, 330295
1941
Box 2, folder 13
Correspondence, out-going, 330293
1942
Box 2, folder 14
Correspondence, out-going, 330291
1943
Box 2, folder 15
Correspondence, out-going, 330289
1944
Box 2, folder 16
Correspondence, out-going, 330287
1945
Box 2, folder 17
Correspondence, out-going, 330285
1946-1948
Box 2, folder 18
Correspondence, in-coming, Aguilar-County 330283
Box 2, folder 19
Correspondence, in-coming, Diaz-Huerta 330281
Box 2, folder 20
Correspondence, in-coming, Inter-American-Quevedo 330279
Box 3, folder 1
Correspondence, in-coming, Ramos-Young 330277
Box 3, folder 2
Defense employment and job training for aliens, 330275
1941-1943
Box 3, folder 3
Defense housing for aliens, 330273
1942
Box 3, folder 4
Ephemera (mostly business cards) 330271
undated
Box 3, folder 5
Financial records, 330269
1941-1945
Box 3, folder 6
Membership records, 330267
undated
Box 3, folder 7
Minutes, 330265
1941-1942
Box 3, folder 9
Minutes, 330261
1944-1946
Box 3, folder 10
Newsclippings, 330259
1941-1945
Box 3, folder 12
Police, CCLAY and community relations, 330255
1944-1945
Box 3, folder 13
Postwar Planning Congress, 330253
1945
Box 3, folder 14
Programs, 330251
1941-1943
Box 3, folder 15
Resolutions, 330249
1942-1945
Box 3, folder 16
Rosters and ballots, 330247
1942-1944
Box 3, folder 17
Social clubs, 330245
1941-1942
Subseries C: Other Organizations, 1931-1956 330185
Box 4, folder 1
California Committee on Youth in Wartime, 330241
1943-1944
Box 4, folder 2
California Committee on Youth in Wartime 330239
1945
Box 4, folder 3
California Youth Committee, 330237
1945-1946
Box 4, folder 4
California Youth Committee, 330235
1947
Box 4, folder 5
Circulo Mexicano, 330233
1940-1943
Box 4, folder 6
Citizens' Committee for Latin American Youth 330231
1942-1944
Box 4, folder 7
Comite de Beneficencia Mexicana, 330229
1931-1946
Box 4, folder 8
Comite Pro-Damnificados de Mazatlan, 330227
1943
Box 4, folder 9
Los Angeles County Committee for Interracial Progress, 330225
1943-1946
Box 4, folder 10
Los Angeles County Committee on Human Relations, 330223
1946
Box 4, folder 11
Los Angeles County Coordinating Council Excutive Board, 330221
1942-1947
Box 4, folder 12
Los Angeles Youth Project, 330219
1942-1945
Box 4, folder 13
Los Angeles Youth Project, 330217
1946-1947
Box 4, folder 14
Mexican Athletic Association (and other amateur athletic groups), 330215
1937-1944
Box 4, folder 15
Mexican Businessmen's Cooperative, 330213
1945-1947
Box 5, folder 1
Mexican Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles, 330211
1943-1953
Box 5, folder 2
Museum of Immigration, 330209
1955-1956
Box 5, folder 3
Pan-American Trade School, 330207
1943
Box 5, folder 4
President's Committee of Fair Employment Practice, 330205
1941-1946
Box 5, folder 5
Public Education Human Relations Committee, Los Angeles City Schools, 330203
1948-1951
Box 5, folder 6
Public Education Human Relations Committee, Los Angeles City Schools 330201
1952
Box 5, folder 7
Southern California Council of Inter-American Affairs, 330199
1943-1945
Box 5, folder 8
Southern California Inter-American Council, 330197
1941-1943
Box 5, folder 9
Statewide Committee for a California Fair Employment Practices Commission, 330195
1945-1946
Box 5, folder 10
Constitutions, By-laws and Articles of Incorporation, miscellaneous groups, 330193
1940s
Box 5, folder 11
Membership lists, miscellaneous groups, 330191
1940s
Box 5, folder 12
Programs, miscellaneous groups, 330189
1940s (1)
Box 5, folder 13
Programs, miscellaneous groups, 330187
1940s (2)
Subseries D: Mexican American Political Organization, 1962-1977 330075
State Level, California 330077
Box 6, folder 1
Articles of Incorporation, 330183
1963
Box 6, folder 2
Balance sheets, 330181
Sep, 1968-Jul, 1969
Box 6, folder 3
Bracero issue, 330179
1964-1967
Box 6, folder 4
Brown, Governor Edmund G., meetings with MAPA 330177
1964-1966
Box 6, folder 5
Brown, Governor Edmund G., meetings with MAPA, speeches and testimony, 330175
1965-1966
Box 6, folder 6
By-laws/State Constitution, 330173
1961
Box 6, folder 7
By-laws/State Constitution, 330171
1963
Box 6, folder 8
By-laws/State Constitution, 330169
1965
Box 6, folder 9
By-laws/State Constitution, 330167
1966
Box 6, folder 10
By-laws/State Constitution, 330165
1967
Box 6, folder 11
By-laws/State Constitution, 330163
1968
Box 6, folder 12
By-laws/State Constitution, 330161
1971
Box 6, folder 13
By-laws/State Constitution, 330159
1973
Box 6, folder 14
California Department of Employment meetings with House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor, 330157
July, 1965; June, 1966
Box 6, folder 15
Civil rights, 330155
1964-1976
Box 7, folder 1
Convention, Annual, 330153
1962
Box 7, folder 2
Convention, Annual, 330151
1963
Box 7, folder 3
Convention, Annual, 330149
1965
Box 7, folder 4
Convention, Annual, 330147
1966
Box 7, folder 5
Convention, Annual, 330145
1967
Box 7, folder 6
Convention, Annual, 330143
1968
Box 7, folder 7
Convention, Endorsing, National, 330141
1968
Box 7, folder 8
Convention, Endorsing, National and State, 330139
1964
Box 7, folder 9
Convention, Endorsing, State, 330137
1966
Box 7, folder 10
Coordinating Council for Hispanic-American Unity, 330135
1965
Box 7, folder 11
Correspondence, 330133
1964-1967
Box 7, folder 12
Correspondence, 330131
1968-1974
Box 7, folder 13
Correspondence, internal, 330129
1963-1967
Box 7, folder 14
Correspondence, internal, 330127
1968-1972
Box 7, folder 15
Executive Board, meeting announcement, 330125
1963
Box 7, folder 16
Executive Board, meetings, 330123
Jun, Jul, Dec, 1964
Box 7, folder 17
Executive Board, meetings, 330121
Apr, Oct, 1965
Box 7, folder 18
Executive Board, meetings, 330119
May, Jun, Sep, Dec, 1966
Box 7, folder 19
Executive Board, meetings, 330117
Feb, May, Jun, Jul, Oct, Dec, 1967
Box 7, folder 20
Executive Board, meetings, 330115
Jan, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Sep, Nov, Dec, 1968
Box 8, folder 1
Grant application, 330113
1964
Box 8, folder 2
Legal Committee, 330111
1968
Box 8, folder 3
Meetings (unidentified), 330109
1964-1969
Box 8, folder 4
Mexican-American Legislative Conference, 330107
Mar, 1967
Box 8, folder 5
Mexican-American Study Project, UCLA, 330105
1964-1967
Box 8, folder 6
Newsclippings, 330103
1963-1975
Box 8, folder 7
Officers' installation, 330101
1972
Box 8, folder 8
Open Resolution to the President of the United States on Civil Disobedience and Riot Investigations, 330099
1965
Box 8, folder 9
Rosters, state and regional officers, 330097
1964-1968
Box 8, folder 10
Statement on the Delano Strike, 330095
Nov, 1965
Box 8, folder 11
Women's Council, 330093
1967
Box 8, folder 12
The Voice of the Spanish-Speaking People, accounts payable, 330091
1965-1966
Box 8, folder 13
The Voice of the Spanish-Speaking People, accounts receivable, 330089
1965-1966
Box 8, folder 14
The Voice of the Spanish-Speaking People, correspondence, general, 330087
Dec, 1965-Mar, 1966
Box 8, folder 15
The Voice of the Spanish-Speaking People, correspondence, general, 330085
Apr 1966-Mar 1967
Box 8, folder 16
The Voice of the Spanish-Speaking People, financial records, 330083
1965-1966
Box 8, folder 17
"La Voz de MAPA" (newsletter), 330081
1971-1972
Box 8, folder 18
Miscellany, 330079
1961-1972
Subseries E: Mexican American Political Association, 1964-1973 330025
State Level, New Mexico 330071
Box 8, folder 19
New Mexico MAPA, 330073
1965-1968
Box 9, folder 1
Northern Region, 330069
1965-1970
Box 9, folder 2
Southern Region, 330067
1964-1969
Box 9, folder 3
By-laws, model for chapters, 330063
1966-1967
Box 9, folder 4
Chapters, Blythe, Coachella Valley, Compton, Corona 330061
Box 9, folder 5
Chapters, Fremont, Fresno, Hanford 330059
Box 9, folder 6
Chapters, Los Angeles, 40th Assembly District, 330057
1966-1973
Box 9, folder 7
Chapters, Los Angeles, "Illume" (newsletter), 330055
1971-1972
Box 9, folder 8
Chapters, Los Angeles County, 41st Assembly District, 330053
1966-1967
Box 9, folder 9
Chapters, Monterey, Napa, National City 330051
Box 9, folder 10
Chapters, Oakland, Pico Rivera 330049
Box 9, folder 11
Chapters, Roseville, Sacramento-East Yolo, San Bernardino, San Francisco 330047
Box 9, folder 12
Chapters, San Jose, Sonoma, Ventura County, West Valley 330045
Box 9, folder 13
Rosters, Bakersfield-Escondido 330043
Box 9, folder 14
Rosters, Fremont-Irwindale 330041
Box 10, folder 1
Rosters, Los Angeles-National City 330039
Box 10, folder 2
Rosters, Oakland-Redlands 330037
Box 10, folder 3
Rosters, Richmond-San Jose 330035
Box 10, folder 4
Rosters, San Luis Obispo-Woodland 330033
Box 10, folder 5
Rosters, Unassigned location 330031
Box not specified, folder data_value_missing_7bc7a47eb3dce1c8dd629fdae90c524a
(for additional MAPA materials, see Box 22) 330029
Subseries F: War On Poverty, Inc., 1965-1968 329935
Box 10, folder 6
Articles of Incorporation, 330023
1965-1966
Box 10, folder 7
Board of Directors, correspondence, 330021
1965-1967
Box 10, folder 8
Board of Directors, minutes, 330019
Mar 1965-Jun 1966
Box 10, folder 9
Board of Directors, minutes, 330017
Jul 1966-Jan 1968
Box 10, folder 10
Board of Directors, rosters, 330015
undated
Box 10, folder 12
Contract between War on Poverty, Inc., and the United States Department of Labor, 330011
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,
330009
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,
330007
Jan-Jun 1967
Box 11, folder 1
Correspondence and contracts between War on Poverty, 330005
July, 1967-July 1968
Box 11, folder 2
EYOA, Joint Powers Agreement, 330003
1965
Box 11, folder 3
EYOA, "The War Against Poverty in Los Angeles," 330001
1967
Box 11, folder 4
Financial records, audit, 329999
1967
Box 11, folder 5
Financial records, quarterly tax returns, 329997
1966-1967
Box 11, folder 6
Financial records, quarterly tax returns, 329995
1968
Box 11, folder 7
Financial records, statement of financial condition, 329993
Jun-Dec 1966
Box 11, folder 8
Grant application, Community Action Program 329991
1965
Box 11, folder 9
Grant application, Community Action Program, Exhibits 1-5 (background information), 329989
1965
Box 11, folder 10
Grant application, Community Action Program, Exhibit 6-8 (maps), 329987
1965
Box 11, folder 11
Grant application, Community Action Program, Exhibit 9 (resumes), 329985
1965
Box 11, folder 12
Grant application, Community Action Program, Exhibits 10-11 (staffing plan), 329983
1965
Box 12, folder 1
Grant application, Community Action Program, letters of support, 329981
1965
Box 12, folder 2
Unemployment insurance, California state, 329979
1966-1968
Box 12, folder 4
Accounting memoranda, 329975
1967
Box 12, folder 6
Community conference component, 329971
1966
Box 12, folder 7
Equipment inventories, 329969
1966-1967
Box 12, folder 8
Funding, 329967
1966-1968
Box 12, folder 9
Funding requests, 329965
1966
Box 12, folder 10
Funding requests, 329963
1967
Box 12, folder 11
Insurance, 329961
1967-1968
Box 12, folder 12
Local share receipts, 329959
1966-1967
Box 12, folder 13
Monthly financial reports and invoices, 329957
1966-1967
Box 13, folder 1
Personnel file, 329955
1966-1967
Box 13, folder 2
Program director, search for, 329953
1966
Box 13, folder 3
Progress reports, 329951
1966
Box 13, folder 4
Progress reports, 329949
1967
Box 13, folder 5
Proposals and contracts, 329947
1966
Box 13, folder 6
Proposals and contracts, 329945
1967-1968
Box 13, folder 8
Rodriguez, Jose M., program director, 329941
1967
Box 13, folder 9
Miscellany, 329939
1966-1967
Box not specified, folder data_value_missing_ac5e1ef6c12398344fec4932c790cac6
(for additional ERIS material, see Box 22) 329937
Subseries G: Manpower Opportunities Project, 1966-1971 329871
Box 13, folder 11
Closing out contract, 329931
1971
Box 13, folder 12
Correspondence, 329929
Feb 1966-Jan 1967
Box 13, folder 13
Correspondence, 329927
Feb-Jul 1967
Box 13, folder 14
Correspondence, 329925
Aug 1967-Mar 1968
Box 14, folder 1
Funding extension, 329923
1967
Box 14, folder 2
In-service training, 329921
Dec-66
Box 14, folder 4
On-the-job training programs, 329917
1967
Box 14, folder 5
Project activities, 329915
1966
Box 14, folder 6
Project activities, 329913
Feb-Apr 1967
Box 14, folder 7
Project activities, 329911
May-Nov 1967
Box 14, folder 8
Referrals to Job Corps, 329909
1967
Box 14, folder 9
Miscellany, 329907
1966-1967
Los Angeles Area Office 329873
Box 14, folder 10
Correspondence and memoranda, 329903
May-Aug 1966
Box 14, folder 11
Correspondence and memoranda, 329901
Sep-Dec 1966
Box 15, folder 1
Correspondence and memoranda, 329899
Jan-Apr 1967
Box 15, folder 2
Correspondence and memoranda, 329897
May-Oct 1967
Box 15, folder 3
Minutes of staff meetings, 329895
Jan-Aug 1967
Box 15, folder 4
Monthly reports, 329893
Jan-Aug 1967
Box 15, folder 5
Weekly staff reports, Carlos, Christopher (Director), 329891
Dec 1966-Jun 1967
Box 15, folder 6
Weekly staff reports, Cordova, Sam, 329889
Jan-Aug 1967
Box 15, folder 7
Weekly staff reports, Sanchez, Waldo, 329887
Jan-Aug 1967
Box 15, folder 8
Weekly staff reports, Varela, Robert, 329885
Jan-Jul, 1967
Box 15, folder 9
Weekly staff reports, Orange County, Gonzalez, Fidel, 329883
Dec 1966-Jun 1967
Box 15, folder 10
Weekly staff reports, Riverside and Imperial Counties, Lozano, Bernie, 329881
Feb-Aug 1967
Box 15, folder 11
Weekly staff reports, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, Vidaurri, Marina, 329879
Apr-Jun 1967
Box 15, folder 12
Weekly staff reports, San Diego County, Machado, Bill, 329877
Feb-Mar 1967
Box not specified, folder data_value_missing_09bee5e77e8ffb2c47a45a7a32e084ca
(for additional MOP material, see Box 22) 329875
Subseries H: Other Organizations, 1964-1969 329863
Box 15, folder 13
Fair Employment Practices Commission, 329869
1964-1969
Box 15, folder 14
Neighborhood Youth Corps, 329867
1966-1967
Box 15, folder 15
Youth Opportunities Foundation, 329865
1964-1966
SERIES V: SUBJECT FILES 329721
Scope and Contents
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).
Subseries A: Civil Rights, 1933-1957 329835
Box 15, folder 16
Delinquency, reports on, 329859
1938-1943
Box 15, folder 17
Diana Ballroom incident, notes, 329857
1942
Box 16, folder 1
Legislation, miscellaneous, 329855
1943-1945
Box 16, folder 2
Politics, miscellaneous, 329853
1942-1947
Box 16, folder 3
Racial discrimination and school segregation, 329851
1936-1945
Box 16, folder 4
Racial discrimination and school segregation, 329849
1946-1948
Box 16, folder 5
Sleepy Lagoon Murder Case, Zoot Suit Riots, 329847
1943-1944
Box 16, folder 6
Sleepy Lagoon Murder Case, and juvenile delinquency, newsclippings, 329845
1942-1944
Box 16, folder 7
Miscellany, 329843
1933; 1940-1943
Box 16, folder 8
Miscellany, 329841
1944-1949
Box 16, folder 9
Miscellany, 329839
1951-1957
Box 16, folder 10
Miscellany, 329837
undated
Subseries B: Mexican Americans and Education 329795
Box 16, folder 11
Bilingual Education, newsclippings, 329833
1966-1976
Box 16, folder 12
Bilingual Education, printed information, 329831
1968-1970
Box 16, folder 13
United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 329829
1968-1977
Box 17, folder 1
Guerra, Manuel H., California Mini-Corps, 329827
1975-1976
Box 17, folder 2
Guerra, Manuel H., correspondence, 329825
1963-1966
Box 17, folder 3
Guerra, Manuel H., 329823
1967-1976
Box 17, folder 4
Guerra, Manuel H., Migrant Education Stanford Project, 329821
1977
Box 17, folder 5
Guerra, Manuel H., newsclippings, 329819
1967
Box 17, folder 6
Guerra, Manuel H., relations with Arizona State University, 329817
1969-1976
Box 17, folder 7
Guerra, Manuel H., relations with University of Southern California, 329815
1966-1968
Box 17, folder 8
Guerra, Manuel H., versus California Polytechnic State University, 329813
San Luis Obispo, 1974-1977
Box 17, folder 9
Guerra, Manuel H., versus California Polytechnic State University 329811
1975, 1977
Box 17, folder 10
School desegregation, newsclippings, 329809
1970-1977
Box 17, folder 11
United States Commission on Civil Rights, and education, 329807
1972-1973
Box 17, folder 12
United States Commission on Civil Rights, and education, 329805
1974-1978
Box 17, folder 13
United States Commission on Civil Rights, Bilingual Education Kit, 329803
circa 1970
Box 17, folder 14
United States Commission on Civil Rights, hearings on school desegregation, Boston, 329801
1975
Box 18, folder 1
United States Commission on Civil Rights, hearings on school desegregation, Denver, 329799
1975-1976
Box 18, folder 2
United States Commission on Civil Rights, school desegregation, 329797
1970-1977
Subseries C: Police-Community Relations, 1967-1978 329769
Box 18, folder 3
Commission on Human Relations, Law Enforcement and Police-Community Relations Committees, Los Angeles County, minutes, 329793
1971-1972
Box 18, folder 4
Newsclippings, 329791
1970
Box 18, folder 5
Newsclippings, 329789
1971
Box 18, folder 6
Newsclippings, 329787
1972-1973
Box 18, folder 7
Newsclippings, 329785
1977-1978
Box 18, folder 8
Salazar, Ruben, correspondence and notes concerning death of, 329783
1970
Box 18, folder 9
Salazar, Ruben, newsclippings concerning death of, 329781
1970
Box 18, folder 10
Salazar, Ruben, statement by Manuel Ruiz concerning death of, 329779
1970
Box 18, folder 11
Salazar, Ruben, writings, 329777
1970
Box 18, folder 12
United States Commission on Civil Rights, Police-Community Relations in East Los Angeles," 329775
1970
Box 18, folder 13
Miscellaneous newsletters and printed matter, 329773
1970-1977
Box 18, folder 14
Miscellaneous reports, reprints and flyers, 329771
1967-1970
Subseries D: Administration of Justice, 1969-1978 329739
Box 19, folder 1
Bilingual Courts Act, 329767
1973-1974
Box 19, folder 2
Campos Torres, Jose, 329765
1977-1978
Box 19, folder 3
Mexican-American Self Help Group, McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary, Washington, 329763
1971
Box 19, folder 4
Mexican-American Self Help Group, 329761
1972-1973
Box 19, folder 5
National Prison Project, 329759
1973
Box 19, folder 6
National Prison Project, 329757
1974
Box 19, folder 7
Prison inmates, correspondence with, 329755
1969-1971
Box 19, folder 8
Prison inmates, correspondence with, 329753
1972
Box 19, folder 9
Prisons, miscellany, 329751
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,
329749
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,
329747
1970
Box 19, folder 12
United States Commission on Civil Rights, miscellany, 329745
1970-1972
Box 20, folder 1
United States Commission on Civil Rights, miscellany, 329743
1973-1978
Box 20, folder 2
United States Senate Bills and Legislative Testimony; S.B. 2963, 2964, "Criminal Justice Information Control," 329741
1974
Subseries E: Miscellaneous Subjects, 1962-1977 329723
Box 20, folder 3
Cabinet Committee on Mexican American Affairs, hearings, 329737
Oct-67
Box 20, folder 4
Migrant workers, 329735
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,'"
329733
1970
Box 20, folder 6
Miscellaneous newsletters and printed matter, 329731
1962-1968
Box 20, folder 9
Miscellany, 329725
undated
SERIES VI: PHOTOGRAPHS 329715
Scope and Contents
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.
Box 20, folder 10
People (three include Manuel Ruiz, Jr.), 329719
1968, 1972, 1977, undated
Box 20, folder 11
Los Angeles Public Library, (removed from Box 2, Folder 6) 329717
circa 1940
SERIES VII: OVERSIZED MATERIALS 329693
Scope and Contents
This series contains media archives whose size did not permit their storage among the rest of the collection.
Box 21, folder 1
Educational Resource Information Service, general ledger, 329713
1966-1967
Box 21, folder 2
Lopez, J. Robert, candidate for Assembly, 40th District (Los Angeles), paste-up of campaign advertisement 329711
1966;
Box 21, folder 3
Manpower Opportunities Project, general ledger, 329709
1966-1967
Box 21, folder 4
Mexican American Political Association, Certificate of Merit, Los Angeles, 329707
1966
Box 21, folder 5
Mexican American Political Association, paste-up of campaign advertisement 329705
undated
Box 21, folder 6
Mexican American Political Association, pins 329703
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 329701
17-Feb-66
Box 21, folder 8
Mexican American Political Association, Vol. 1, no. 7, 329699
Mar 1, 1966, pp 1-8
Box 21, folder 9
Mexican American Political Association, proofs, Vol. 1, no. 12, 329697
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,"
329695
undated
SERIES VIII: Accession 2014-114 2329563
Box 22, folder 1
Ruiz correspondence A-B 2329565
Box 22, folder 2
Ruiz correspondence C-E 2329564
Box 22, folder 3
Ruiz correspondence F-H 2329566
Box 22, folder 4
Ruiz correspondence I-M 2329567
Box 22, folder 5
Ruiz correspondence N-P 2329568
Box 22, folder 6
Ruiz correspondence R-T 2329569
Box 22, folder 7
Ruiz correspondence V-X 2329570
Box 22, folder 8
Ruiz correspondence unknown 2329573
SERIES IX: Accession 2005-120 2329577
carton 1
Research for "Mexican-American Legal Heritage of the Southwest" volumes 1 and 2.
carton 2
Miscellaneous subject files, documents, and photographs
1932-1978
Scope and Contents
Subject files on the Amparo process, 1961-1967; Howard A. Glickstein, 1969-1970; MAPA & Bert Corona, 1967; and Francisco Sepulveda,
1917-1969. In addition there are Ruiz's unpublished typescripts and speeches, 1974-1978; biographical papers; reports and
press releases, 1966-1978; undated notes; undated photographs of various government officials and the Delano strike; publications
by Ruiz, 1932-1940; clippings, 1967-1973; and typescripts and publications by others.
SERIES X: Accession 1988-011m
Scope and Contents
Original accession of the Manuel Ruiz papers contains correspondence and papers pertaining to Ruiz' work in Southern California
politics advocating for Mexican Americans. Included are files pertaining to Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, as
well as correspondence with other politicians and activists.
Box 25, folder 6, Box 26, folder 1-3
Box 26, folder 7
Mexican American political candidates
1968
Box 26, folder 8
Republican Convention
1972
Box 26, folder 9, Box 27, folder 1
Democratic Convention
1972
Box 27, folder 4
Inter-Agency Committee on Mexican American Affairs
Box 27, folder 5
Pueblo de Los Angeles Republican Association
Box 27, folder 6
GOP Nationalities Division, Republican National Committee
Box 27, folder 7
Republican Organizations & Committees
Box 27, folder 14
California - Southern Counties
Box 27, folder 16
US-Mexico Relations & Foreign Policy
Box 27, folder 18
Mexican American Republicans
Box 28, folder 1-2
Mexican American Political Activists
Box 28, folder 5
MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL HERITAGE IN THE SOUTHWEST
Box 28, folder 6
Interview with Manuel Ruiz at Long Beach State College
Box 28, folder 7
Manuel Ruiz biographical information