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This folder contains fliers, newsletters, fliers and song sheets related to the locked-out newsworkers in their battle with media giants Gannett and Knight-Ridder.

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2 page facsimile of promotional campaign literature for the 1998 Michigan House of Representatives campaign. Garza represented Detroit from 1998-2002.

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This folder includes a 54-page facsimile of the 2001-2002 inaugural Cesar Chavez Academy Yearbook.

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This folder contains a 1-page letter of invitation to Richard Chavez to the Chavez Academy dedication and a UFW March in honor of Cesar Chavez in Detroit as well as planning notes by staff of the UFW, AFL-CIO Detroit Public Action group.

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Examples of commemorations to Chavez legacy which include school and street name changes and mounting plaques.

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This folder includes five newspaper clippings on the life and work of Cesar E. Chavez

Abstract This folder includes a reproduction of the 1998 Labor's International Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Cesar Chavez, President of the UFW was inducted. It also includes a flier for the 4th Annual March and Dance in support of strawberry workers and Cesar Chavez Avenue in Lansing Michigan. Richard Chavez is listed as the Special Guest. In a letter, Chavez acknowledges the efforts of MSU students calling for an MSU grape boycott, the hunger strike and monies that MSU provided the Cesar E....

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Various lists of community, labor, students and other persons interested in/supporting the UFW in Lansing, Ann Arbor and Detroit areas. Lists were printed or written on the reverse side of fliers recycled from previous local UFW events which include a picture of activities in those areas. Fliers and miscellaneous correspondence including a 1996 FOIA request to the Lansing Police Department of patrons at the Latin American Cultural Center on March 24, 1996 is also included.

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This folder includes a flier announcing an exhibit by Nora Chapa Mendoza at the Wayne State University Walter P. Reuther Library and a showing of Fruit of Dreams, a film by Diana Peña.

Abstract This folder includes correspondence, planning notes and fliers for Dia de los Muertos events at Michigan State University for 1995, 1997 and 1998. A 1997 letter announcing the Third Annual Dia de los Muertos, Lansing Michigan with UFW Co-founder, Dolores Huerta in attendance and a 1998 letter to a supporter to continue working on the Fourth Annual Dia de los Muertos event. Also included is one issue of the newsletter Para la Gente in form of a letter requesting Dia de los Muertos support...