Chicano/Latino t-shirt collection.

Many of the t-shirts are of Midwest US related themes. Items included are a MSU ChiSPA team shirt for Las Comadres, Dia de la Mujer and other MSU Chicanx student and staff events; shirts from the campaigns of Elena Herrada for the Detroit City Charter Commission and Detroit School Board and the Tony...

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Language:English
Spanish
Language and/or Writing System:
Material in English and Spanish.
Subjects:
López Rivera, Óscar > Sources.
Chavez, Cesar, > 1927-1993 > Sources.
Michigan State University > Students > Political activity > Sources.
United Farm Workers > Sources.
United Farm Workers of America > Sources.
Hispanic Americans > Political activity > Sources.
Hispanic American college students > Michigan > East Lansing > Sources.
Student movements > Michigan > East Lansing > Sources.
Political campaigns > Michigan > Sources.
Boycotts > United States > Sources.
T-shirts.
Genre:
Sources.
T-shirts.
Online Access:
View the inventory of the collection
Local Note:
MSU: The material is stored offsite in Remote Storage. Please contact Special Collections 3 working days in advance if you wish to use it.
Physical Description:2 boxes (2 linear ft.)
Format: Kit
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Summary:
Many of the t-shirts are of Midwest US related themes. Items included are a MSU ChiSPA team shirt for Las Comadres, Dia de la Mujer and other MSU Chicanx student and staff events; shirts from the campaigns of Elena Herrada for the Detroit City Charter Commission and Detroit School Board and the Tony Benavides Lansing Michigan mayoral campaign and the imprisonment of Puerto Rican FALN member and political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera. (President Obama commuted Lopez Rivera's sentence on January 17, 2017) He lived in Chicago before capture and was held in an Indiana federal prison. Other t-shirts commemorate United Farm Worker Union boycotts of Gallo Wine products and Cesar E. Chavez. Shirts date from 1974 into the early 2000s.
Call Number:MSS 456
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Cite As:
Item, Folder number and/or title, Box number, Chicano/Latino t-shirt collection, MSS 456, Special Collections, MSU Libraries, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
Source of Acquisition:
The collection is organized from materials removed from the Pedro and Diana Rivera collection, donations and some purchases for the José F. Treviño Activist Collections.
Cumulative Indexes:
Finding aid online: http://as.lib.msu.edu/repositories/2/resources/2057