My vote is to keep Mayor Tony Benavides , 2003
Scope and Contents
The Chicano/Latino T-shirt and Textile collection consists draw upon many 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, 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. Rivera 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.
Dates
- Creation: 2003
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open and available for research in the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections' reading room.
Extent
From the Collection: 3 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This is a t-shirt printed and distributed for Tony Benavides, who as Lansing City Council President, ascended to Mayor in 2003 after then-Mayor David Hollister. He was subsequently elected Mayor of the City of Lansing the following November to complete the balance of Hollister's unfinished term. He lost his bid for re-election in 2005.
Repository Details
Part of the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections Repository