Grassroots Activism in New Mexico and the Southwest 

José Angel Gutierrez, Reies López Tijerina, Rudolfo "Corky" Gonzales at the first National Convention of La Raza Unida Party, 1972. Reies Tijerina Photograph Collection, Center for Southwest Research, 000-654.

Resistance at Big Mountain, Sacred Lands Project Collection, Center for Southwest Research, MSS 617 BC

Oren Lyons and AIM Members at Wounded Knee Occupation, 1973. Carol Sullivan Photograph Collection, Center for Southwest Research, 000-659.

New Mexico political redistricting case, U.S. Supreme Court, 1981.  Frank I. Sanchez Papers, Center for Southwest Research, MSS 612.

The CSWR houses many archival materials relating to community grassroots activism in New Mexico and elsewhere. Archives include personal papers, organizational records, oral histories, music archives, and photograph collections.

Go to the Rocky Mountain Online Archive.

The Rocky Mountain Online Archive lets you search archival collection finding aids (inventories and other detailed descriptive information) from the UNM Center for Southwest Research and over 25 other archival institutions in NM, CO, and WY.

Click below for lists of the archives of grassroots activists and activist organizations at the Center for Southwest Research.  Another version of these guides with photo illustrations can be found on the CSWR webpage (scroll down to "Subject Guides").

Try this new online resource:

Cesar Chavez & His Farmworker Movement, 1962-1993.

Thousands of online photos, music, essays, video, oral history, discussion.

Includes El Malcriado, the United Farmworkers newspaper.

The UT Libraries' Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI) is committed to the long-term preservation of fragile and vulnerable records of human rights struggles worldwide, the promotion and secure usage of human rights archival materials, and the advancement of human rights research and advocacy around the world.