Box 2
Contains 77 Results:
MEXA Che Guevara Day 1997
MEXA : Chicano Studies, 1994 - 1999
This folder includes fliers, lists of demands, news clippings, Chicano Studies proposals authored by visiting professor and head of the Chicano Studies mentor program Theresa Melendez, MEChA correspondence between students and the MSU Office of the Provost and other miscellaneous correspondence.
MEChA, MSU : Grape Boycott, 1994
This folder includes fliers, correspondence, newsclippings, press releases related to the 1996 hunger strike by 6 Chicana/o students to demand that MSU once again boycott non-UFW harvested grapes and lettuce. An agreement between Peter McPherson, MSU President and MEChA students is included as well as a 1975 news article documenting MSU's previous boycott of non-UFW harvested grapes and lettuce.
MEChA - ChiLA (Chicano Latino Faculty Staff Association) Feria Cultural, 1994
Correspondence regarding the jointly sponsored 1994 event on the MSU campus. See also the event T-shirt in MSS 456 and the digital image in MICHILAC at https://michilac.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/michilac%3A117
T.O.C.E/ LUPE (Latinos Unidos Para Estudiantes) Scholarship
This folder contains documents on the history of and an application for the TOCE/LUPE scholarship. Included is a prospectus to potential donors and an email detailing application procedures and selection criteria.
Conferences MEChA [MEXA] Program, 1997
This folder contains a brief history of Mexa, Mexa Registration from 1997, planning, publications, and correspondences regarding the planning and execution of the 1997 Mexa Conference hosted at MSU. The program includes an action plan, speaker biographies and a daily schedule. MSU MEChA members used the alternative spelling MEXA rather than the established organization spelling.
MEXA, Operation Zero and Change of Ethnicity at Michigan State University, 1993 - 1999
This folder contains a press release about the 1993 effort called Operation Zero by Chicano students changeing their ethnicity from Mexican American to white to protest the university's "hypocrisy" towards students of color, in particular Chicanos. In 1999 another effort was initiated by members of MEXA and CRU in support of Chicano Studies.