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Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of the Plan de Tlaltizapan, dated July 26, 1911, which is four pages on two oversized sheets of paper. In May 1911, Francisco I. Madero succeeded in toppling the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, thus initiating the Mexican Revolution. This document, dating from the first three months of the Revolution, begins with a cry for effective agrarian law, an end to monopolies and haciendas, and the supremacy of the people (“Ley Agraria Efectiva. Abajo los monopolies de tierra,...