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Poor People's Campaign

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Karl Kernberger Pictorial Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PICT-2000-008
Abstract

This collection contains photographs by Karl Kernberger spanning many subjects, geographical areas and times. It is grouped as political photographs, book projects, miscellaneous photography, audio and moving images, and images from the Trailway Tour exhibition. The 2022 addition focuses on photographs of the southwest.

Dates: 1912-1990; Majority of material found within 1957-1977

Reies Tijerina Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-654-BC
Abstract

The collection contains the papers of New Mexico land grant activist Reies Lopez Tijerina, best known for founding the Alianza Federal de Mercedes. The group organized heirs seeking to regain Spanish and Mexican land grants protected under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, an important component of the Chicano Movement.

Dates: 1888-2003; Majority of material found within 1963-1978