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[Clipping: Boycott urged to force state King holiday #2]

Description: Newspaper clippings of the second page of the article, "Boycott urged to force state King holiday," discussing a boycott to encourage Texas to make Martin Luther King Day a full holiday. Civil rights leaders in Texas urged the National Football League to boycott Texas when Houston was being considered as the location of the Super Bowl for 1995. The article quotes Mario Marcel Salas, state senator Frank Tejada, and Rev. R. A. Callies regarding their efforts in organizing the push for the holiday. more
Date: March 27, 1991
Creator: Garcia, James E.
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

[Clipping: Civil Rights Activists Calls for MKL Holiday]

Description: Newspaper clipping of the article, "Civil Rights Activists Calls for MKL Holiday" in NOKOA - The Observer, discussing Mario Marcel Salas' address to the Texas State Senate Public Affairs Committee in support of a bill to officially recognized Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a paid state holiday.
Date: March 22, 1991
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

[Letter from Julia Kooken to John and Jo Stanford, March 23, 1964]

Description: Letter from Julia Kooken to John and Jo Stanford discussing a plan to flood the office of Ross Barnett with checks made out to a memorial fund for the family of Medgar Evers. The fund will support the Evers family while allowing Americans to express their position regarding Medgar Evers' death. There is a handwritten note at the bottom of the typed letter asking John and Jo to forgive the carbon copy and a list of other people Kooken sent the letter to.
Date: March 23, 1964
Creator: Kooken, Julia
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

[Letter from Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, March 1955]

Description: Letter from Dr. Chauncey D. Leake to several friends discussing a medical conference in Philadelphia, the philosophy of science, a management survey at the U. of Texas Medical Branch, his resignation as director of the UTMB, and an appearance before the Texas state legislature.
Date: March 1955
Creator: Leake, dr. Chauncey Depew
Partner: Moody Medical Library, UT

[Clipping: Boycott urged to force state King holiday #1]

Description: Newspaper clipping of the first page of the article, "Boycott urged to force state King holiday," discussing a boycott by the National Football League to encourage Texas to make Martin Luther King Day a full holiday. The article quotes Mario Marcel Salas and Rev. R. A. Callies regarding their efforts in organizing the push for the holiday, and there is a photo of Mario Marcel Salas in front of a statue of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Date: March 27, 1991
Creator: Garcia, James E. & Kennedy, David
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas

[Letter from Maury Maverick, Jr. to James Barlow and Waggoner Carr, March 8, 1965]

Description: Letter from Maury Maverick, Jr. to James Barlow and Waggoner Carr stating that John W. Stanford, Jr.'s papers had not been returned to him as ordered by the court and requesting that Barlow and Carr return Stanford's missing papers and pay the court costs as ordered by the court. The letter was copied to the Office of the Clerk of the United States Supreme Court, John W. Stanford, Jr., Solomon Casseb, and Mel Wulf.
Date: March 8, 1965
Creator: Maverick, Maury, Jr.
Partner: Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas
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