1965-1996
Origination : Midwest Council of La Raza.Midwest Council of La Raza Records (MCL), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556
Office files including committee minutes and correspondence; financial records such as receipts, check stubs, accounts of program expenditures, fundraising proposals, and fundraising information; subject files on demographics, labor conditions of migrant workers, immigration, bilingual education, and other topics; La Raza news releases, clippings, and scrapbooks; correspondence and clippings from the Groundskeepers Rights Association, University of Notre Dame, 1977-1979; and files of the Midwest Hispanic Catholic Commission's study of the historical development of Hispanic Catholics in the United States.
Advocacy agency for Spanish-speaking migrant workers in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin. It was established in 1970 as part of the Institute for Urban Studies, University of Notre Dame. Directors were Olga Villa, 1970-1971 and Ricardo Para, 1971- .