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Collection
Identifier: MSS 456
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...
Dates:
1974 - 2016
Item
Identifier: MSS 147 small
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 135 large
Scope and Contents
The David Dylan Jones papers contain manuscripts, typescripts, carbon copies, and printed matter of articles, poetry and correspondence relating to his membership in the Michigan State University Railroad Club, research interests in railrod history, and more broad literary activities, including his manuscript "Death, Van Dyke Style."
Dates:
approximately 1969-2000
Collection
Identifier: MSS 304 large
Scope and Contents
Diane Wakoski papers (1958-2011) consists of correspondence, books, magazines/journals, flyers, photographs, and broadsides.
Dates:
1958-2011
Collection
Identifier: MSS 500 large
Scope and Contents
Starting in approximately 1990 until approximately 2001, under the direction of Prof. Anita Skeen, freshman and sophomore students prepared a time capsule every year to document their world for future generations in a closed deposit at MSU Special Collections for 100 years.
Dates:
approximately 1990-2001
Collection
Identifier: MSS 439
Scope and Contents
This collection includes several large protest signs from the December 2014 demonstrations against MSU’s Fall commencement speaker, George F. Will, coverage of the controversy on the State News, as well as material from an alternative commencement ceremony, the Michigan State University "Surviving and Thriving Celebration."
Dates:
2014
Collection
Identifier: MSS 321 large
Scope and Contents
The Imbibers of the Feast Letters collection consists of invitations and letters/pieces written by Diane Wakoski and the participants in the project.
Dates:
1980-1981
Collection
Identifier: MSS 397 large
Scope and Contents
The Joseph Spielberg Benitez papers consist of materials from the agricultural migrant worker safety program: "A presentation for the promotion of occupational safety and health of migrant farmworkers." Production of the presentation was sponsored by the Migrant and Bilingual Education Division, Department of Education, State of Michigan via a contract with Michigan Economics for Human Development in Grand Ledge, Michigan. The materials in the collection include original notes and drafts of...
Dates:
1980-2006
Collection
Identifier: MSS 382 large
Scope and Contents
The Juana and Jesse Gonzales papers (1949-2000) contain reports, newsletters, reprints, unpublished papers and news clippings collected by Jesse and Juana Gonzales since the late 1960s through 2006. A significant part of the collection dates from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s relating to Chicano student activism on campuses, Chicanos and Latinos in the arts, and materials on the history of Chicanos and Latinos in Michigan including agricultural labor and migrant workers. Included in...
Dates:
1960-2006
Collection
Identifier: MSS 245
Scope and Contents
The majority of the material in this collection is comprised of anti-war movements and local peace actions from the Lansing Area Peace Council, dating from 1950 to 1996. There are also folders containing information and resources for topics such as Student Movements at MSU, 1964-1968; Mobilization, April 15, 1967; The Trial of the Catonsville Nine; and the World Council of Churches. The collection includes newsletters, signed petitions, pamphlets, news releases, flyers, personal...
Dates:
1950-1996; Majority of material found within 1965-1975
