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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- .
Records of the Midwest Council of La Raza and its descendent the Midwest Hispanic Catholic Commission of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops; including training aides files (social action and religious), programs and workshop resources, reports (1971-1981), MIHM adjunct faculty files, account files and reports (1984-1989), assessment files (1978-1996), petty cash files (1982-1983), board of directors files (1978-1987), III Encuentro documents (1985), bookkeeping records and correspondence (1986-1987), diocesan correspondence (1986-1988), training material, assessment forms and letters, financial reports and statements, check authorizations, petty cash receipts, visa receipts, grants, personnel files, insurance files, surveys, demographic profile, articles, popular religiosity survey questionnaires, daily activity logs, state meetings files, diocesan directors (1991-1995), diocesan questionnaires - followup stage, general correspondence (1987-1995), diocesan files, regional directors' meeting files, informational documents (organizations, institutes, ABCM 1990), MHCC meeting files, articles, bishops' meeting files, hispanic bishops files, transaction reports, and MHCC mission, goals and objectives. The Midwest Hispanic Catholic Commission sent this packing list along with the files.