Briscoe Center Guide to Civil Rights and Social Justice Materials

Vertical files are collections of newspaper clippings, ephemera, printed material and other items collected by the Briscoe Center on various local and regional topics. The items collected span several decades and staff continue to update the files with new items. Although the files are not a comprehensive source of information on any topic, they are a good place to start for general information for research topics. 

The files listed below are only a small selection of vertical files.

Vertical File: Biographical

• Acreman, Harry W. (Texas labor leader) 

• Adkins, Grady (Dallas labor leader) 

• Aikin, W. Morris (Texas labor leader) 

• Allen, Ruth A. (UT Professor Emeritus of Economics, 1889-1979) 

• Barrientos, Emma 

• Chavez, Cesar 

• Farmer, James 

• Flynn, Jack (1875-1934, Texas Labor Commissioner, boxing and wrestling supporter) 

• Marshall, Ray (UT Economics Professor; Labor Secretary under President Jimmy Carter) 

• Mills, Charles Wright 

• Rodriguez, Joe (Texas migrant farm worker who won a scholarship to Pan American College) 

• Russell, Steve 

• Steen, Lias Brown "Bubba" (Commissioner of the Dept. of Labor and Standards; Texas Employment commission)  

• Tenayuca, Emma 

• Tubbs, Vincent (Founding member of Delta Phi Delta journalism fraternity; first black to head to Hollywood film union)* 

Vertical Files: Subject

• Agriculture (Includes Farming) (4 scrapbooks) 

• Child Labor 

• Employee Grievances - UT 

• Farm Workers 

• Farmers’ Alliance 

• Labor & Laboring Classes (2 scrapbooks) 

• Labor Unions 

• Mexican Americans - Civil Rights [?] 

• Migrant Labor (3 scrapbooks) 

• Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union 

• Strikes and Lockouts 

• Texas Department of Labor and Standards 

• Texas Good Neighbor Commission 

• Texas Labor Archives 

• Texas State Employees Union 

• Texas United Farm Workers 

• University Employees Union 

Vertical Files: Texas Authors

• Allen, Ruth A. (UT Professor Emeritus of Economics, 1889-1979) 

• Farmer, J. Leonard 

• Mills, Charles Wright