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To Sr. Alonso S. Perales, San Antonio, Texas, From Carmen Cedillo and Jacobo M. Aneira, Hutto, Texas, February 28, 1944
Letter from Carmen Cedillo and Jacobo M. Aneira to Alonso S. Perales describing a restaurant in Hutto, Texas where they were denied service because they were of Mexican descent. -
Affidavit sworn by Carmen Celestino to Alonso S. Perales
Affidavit sworn by Carmen Celestino that states that both she and Virginia Ashe were informed they could not attend the School of Nursing Hotel Dieu in El Paso, Texas because they were of Mexican descent. -
Sin Fronteras, v. 7, no. 3, Chicago, IL, August-September, 1980, cover.
Newsletter V 7., no., 3. With CASA organizational logo in right top corner, table of contents, and drawing of historic Mexican, Latin American, and Chicago resistance struggles by Pilsen artist Aurelio Díaz. -
Los campesinos japoneses y la guerra
Artículo que narra las dificultades y penurias que experimentan los campesinos japoneses y sus familias como consecuencia del "negocio de la guerra" que solo es rentable para "las castas militares y los negociantes fascistas". -
La guerra de China y sus mujeres
Artículo que describe la intensa participación de las mujeres Chinas en la guerra contra Japón y se centra en su heroísmo y empeño. -
Pilsen residents march outside City Hall
Members of Pilsen community march outside City Hall, protesting lack of Latino firefighters, 21 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois. From Black-and-white negative. -
Festival de Mujeres 1979 Poster "In celebration of what we as women have done, are doing and can do!"
Festival de Mujeres Poster. Graphic artist: Mercedes Corona. Based on photographs by Diana Solís. Poster sponsored by Mujeres Latinas en Acción. -
Si Se Puede, It Can Be Done. Boycott Lettuce and Grapes. Poster, 1978. Copyright Chicago Women's Graphics Collective
Poster printed with yellow, brown, green, and orange ink on white paper. A graphic of an agricultural lettuce field fills the upper two-thirds of the page. The top half of a yellow sun with jagged rays is visible just over the field at upper right in an orange sky. The sun is printed with a United Farm Workers eagle symbol and the text, "Sí Se Puede ~ It Can Be Done" in an arch along the top. Several figures in salmon-colored outfits work among the rows of lettuce throughout the center of the page. A group portrait of men, women, and children in green, white, and salmon-colored outfits fills the bottom third of the page above the text "Boycott Lettuce and Grapes" -
To Mr. Alonso S. Perales, President, Committee of One Hundred, From Tom C. Clark, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, October 31, 1944.
Letter to Alonso S. Perales from Tom Clark, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice. Mr. Clark acknowledges the receipt of letter dated October 26, 1944, which included a list of places where Mexicans are discriminated. Tom Clark cites Civil Rights Cases 109 U.S. 3 declaring that the Federal Government has not power to legislate concerning discrimination based on race or national origin by private individuals and private businesses. -
College of Mortuary Science Diploma as Professional Embalmer
Diploma from College of Mortuary Science awarded to Felix Morales.