UT Collections
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The tutorial is tailored to working with women's human rights archival collections at the University of Texas, but can be useful for anyone doing archival research. The tutorial walks you through finding an archival collection, preparing for research, viewing archival collections, conducting archival research, and emotional and ethical engagement with archival material.
Civil Liberties and Censorship, Civil Rights, Segregation, and Apartheid, Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Ethnic Conflict and Genocide, Gender and Sexuality, Immigrant Rights, Indigenous Rights, Prisoner Rights, Slavery and Human Trafficking, War Crimespresent -
Labor organizer, feminist, and journalist Yolanda Alaniz became involved in the labor movement as an employee at the University of Washington where she was one of the founders of the Staff Rights Organizing Committee (SROC). She has also been a member of the Freedom Socialist Party, United Workers Organization, and National Hispanic Feminist Conference, among other organizations. Written works, biographical material, feminist publications and memorabilia, and materials about political or sexual discrimination cases comprise the Alaniz collection.
Civil Rights, Segregation, and Apartheid, Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Gender and Sexuality1971-present -
An active participant in the national leadership of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) during the late 1930's, a feminist, and, later in life, a folk artist, Alice Dickerson Montemayor joined LULAC and quickly rose within the women's chapter, becoming secretary from 1936-1937 and president from 1938-1939. Having garnered national attention through her reporting of the council's activities in LULAC News, she served as a national delegate at the 1937 Houston LULAC convention. There she was elected to the position of second national vice president general. Alice Montemayor became the first woman elected to a national office in the organization. By 1940 she had become the associate editor of LULAC News and director of Junior LULAC. In her role as vice president she became a leading voice for women at the national level. She promoted the creation of more ladies’ councils and wrote articles and editorials such as “Son Muy Hombres”, which denounced notions of male superiority and pushed for a more active role for women in the organization. The same year Mrs. Montemayor left LULAC. Having retired as school registrar in 1972, Alice Montemayor started painting and establishing herself as a folk artist. In 1988 she was the focus of a presentation at fifty-ninth Annual LULAC Convention and at the Smithsonian Institution. The collection contains articles, clippings, correspondence, interviews, photographs and other papers documenting the life of Alice Dickerson Montemayor as a private individual, activist, feminist, and artist.
Civil Rights, Segregation, and Apartheid, Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Gender and Sexuality1920-1989 -
The Black Political Imprisonment Collection contains written works by imprisoned authors, conference materials, news articles, advocacy letters, and academic books and articles, on Black Political Imprisonment in both the United States and Brazil. Full-text of information available for download.
1996-2011 -
The Black Queer Studies Collection includes works in the circulating and archival collections, in multiple formats and multiple languages. The Black Queer Studies Collection is a virtual designation added by UT Libraries catalogers to individual records. This means that you’ll see "Black Queer Studies Collection" listed as a "Local Note" in records included in the collection. The note is being added to and improves access to records in the UT Libraries Catalog for materials by and about Black Diasporic LGBTQ people. For more information, click here.
Civil Rights, Segregation, and Apartheid, Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Gender and Sexuality1975-present -
This collection features documents, photographs, bibliographies, and links to outside resources on prominent Black women in U.S. national politics, from Angela Davis to Condoleezza Rice. Full-text of information available for download.
1959-present -
Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants (C.U.R.E.) was founded in 1972 by Charles and Pauline Sullivan in San Antonio, Texas as a membership organization of families of prisoners, prisoners, former prisoners, and other concerned citizens who work to reduce crime through criminal justice reform. The collection contains correspondence, newsletters, legal material, videotapes, photographs, and printed material that document the work of the organization at both the national and state levels.
ca. 1947, 1972-2010 -
Clemente Nicasio Idar, American Federation of Labor (AFL) organizer, writer, and orator was the first Mexican American organizer in the mainstream labor movement and fought to improve wages and working conditions for Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the United States. In 1911, Clemente and his family members organized El Congreso Mexicanista, a conference in Laredo that brought together delegates from across Texas to build a federation of community organizations that could work together to improve the social, economic, and cultural status of Mexican Americans. In 1918, Samuel Gompers, president of AFL, selected Idar to help coordinate and translate at the Pan American Federation of Labor Conference in Laredo. Soon thereafter, Idar began working as an AFL organizer. The collection includes correspondence, personal documents, photographs and ephemera from the AFL and other organizations’ campaigns.
1875-1938, (bulk: 1905-1934) -
The collection of physician, writer, and community activist, Dr. Clotilde P. Garcia, contains correspondence, printed materials, and publications related to AGIF and Mexican American civil rights. She participated in many community and Mexican American organizations, serving on several advisory and executive boards on the county, state, and national levels. She published historical works dealing with South Texas and northern Mexico.
1949-1988, (bulk: 1970-1980) -
The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) is a national organization founded in 1980 by American activists to fight against U.S. military intervention in the Salvadoran civil war. CISPES and other organizations advocated for U.S. non-intervention in this and other Central American conflicts and the right of undocumented refugees to sanctuary in the U.S. CISPES is best known for the series of law suits it brought against the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the late 1980s following FBI infiltration and surveillance of the organization. This collection includes materials from the Dallas branch of CISPES that operated from approximately 1981 to 1990 and it documents the FBI infiltration and subsequent law suits, the CISPES sanctuary work in the Dallas area, and Holy Cross community initiatives for the urban poor in Dallas.
1968-1990
