MEXA Michigan State University, before 2007
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: before 2007
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
Movimiento Estudiantil Xicano de Aztlan | Moimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan. Short sleeve shirt; cotton; black with green and red screen printing. Reverse white screenprint of bird head encircled by "MSU" at top and "MEXA" at bottom. From the Pedro and Diana Rivera collection.
Repository Details
Part of the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections Repository