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Adelante: Austin Chicano Huelga

Booklet titled "Adelante" and subtitled "Austin Chicano Huelga". It contains articles, photos, and a cartoon.

Tags: 1970s, Austin, Chicana, Chicano, Chicano Movement, Labor, Law, Mexican American, Texas, Union

Images of Almetris Co-Op from Within "Overcoming"

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Images of Almetris Co-Op, an example of housing provided to black women at UT Austin, and its first residents

Tags: Accessibility, Activism, Advocacy, African American storytelling, Almetris Duren, Austin, Civil rights, Co-op, Dormitory, Education administration, Housing, Segregation, Students, Texas, UT Austin, Whitis, Women, Women's Education

Daily Texan Newspaper Clipping "Loss of Whitis Puts Negroes Back in Bind"

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Newspaper clipping describing the struggles that black women students have in gaining housing on the UT campus.

Tags: 1960s, Accessibility, Activism, Advocacy, Almetris Duren, Austin, Black advocacy, Civil rights, Co-op, Dormitory, Education, Education administration, Housing, Journalism, Newspaper, Segregation, South, Texas, UT Austin, Whitis, Women

UT mourns loss of woman influential during UT integration

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An obituary of sorts describing the life and contributions to the University of Texas by Almetris Marsh Duren

Letter From the KKK to Residence Hall

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A letter delivered to residents of a Co-Op Affiliated with the University of Texas. This details racial discrimination as it was written by the Klu Klux Klan

Tags: 1960s, African American storytelling, Almetris Duren, Austin, Black Americans, Black students, Blackness, Civil rights, Co-op, Education, Politics, Racial slurs, Racial violence, South, Students, Texas, UT Austin, Whitis, Women's Education

The Earnest Young Woman

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A booklet describing why the University of Texas at Austin should allocate funding towards the building of housing units for women. This is part of a larger work that describes the housing to be built.

Tags: 1950s, Accessibility, Activism, Advocacy, Almetris Duren, Austin, Co-op, Gender, Housing, Texas, UT Austin, Women, Women's Education

Amended Charge Against Employer

Charge Against Employer Dormae Products, Inc. to the National Labor Relations Board by Upholsterers’ International Union of North America.

Tags: 1960s, 1970s, Austin, Chicana, Chicano, Chicano Movement, Labor, Law, Mexican American, Texas, Union

Economy Furniture Company Strike Flyer

Strike flyer from Lucha of Austin asking for support for strikers against Economy Furniture. Provides short history of the strike and asks consumers not to shop at stores selling "scab furniture".

Tags: 1960s, 1970s, Austin, Chicana, Chicano, Chicano Movement, Labor, Mexican American, Texas, Union

Daily Texan Newspaper Clipping, "Whitis Residents Present Grievances"

Discussion of grievances presented by residents of the original Whitis co-op, presented in the Daily Texan student newspaper in October of 1959.

PAPA Noticiero No. 9

The front page of PAPA Noticiero No. 9 which details the statistics of case coverage on applications for Temporary Protected Status on behalf of immigrants in the Austin community.
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