Ramiro (Ramsey) Muniz
.25 linear feet, 1 VCR, 1 Photograph
A2002-037; A2002-041; A2004-004
1890-1945 (unknown)
Ramiro Muniz, known as Ramsey Muniz, was born on December 13, 1942 in Corpus Christi. He was one of five children of Rudy G. Muniz and Hilda Longoria. Muniz obtained a scholarship to attend Baylor University in Waco, Texas. There he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in 1967. He obtained his Juris Doctor degree from Baylor Law School in 1971. He was politically active in both high school and at university, in high school with the MAYO organization, Mexican American Youth Organization. After law school he worked as an attorney in Waco, he relocated to San Antonio and continued as a lawyer with Sandoval and Pena. He then worked with attorneys Albert Huerta and Albert Pena in Corpus Christi. While practicing law he lectured throughout the states at many colleges and universities issuing a call of political, social, and spiritual consciousness. Twice he ran as the La Raza gubernatorial candidate for the governor of Texas in 1972 and 1974. He lost both elections to the Democrat Dolph Briscoe. His goal was power of inclusion to Hispanic Americans. Drug charges were brought three times against Ramsey Muniz. First in 1976, the U. S. government brought felony drug charges against Muniz for allegedly attempting to smuggle 6,500 pounds of marijuana into the U. S. from Mexico. He served five years in a federal penitentiary. In 1982 he pled no contest to a possession of cocaine and served two years. Then in 1994 he was arrested in a rental car with 90 pounds of cocaine. He is serving a life sentence at the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, without the possibility of parole.
The collection contains one VCR of Ramsey Muniz biographical history and twenty handwritten letters addressing the creation of the La Raza Unida in Texas and the political events of the Hispanic community in the United States in the last half of the 20th century and one photograph of Muniz and a friend at Leavenworth Penitentiary.
Materials are arranged in three series: Series I: Correspondence Series II: Oral History Series III: Photographs
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A2002-037 was a gift from Dr. Leslie G. Hunter on October 16, 2002. A2002-041 was a gift from TAMUK student Michelle Arevelo-Ketto on March 31, 2003 and A2004-004 was a gift from Irma Muniz on January 27, 2004.
Documents were processed in 2002 and 2004, in 2018 Lori Atkins created records in the database for documents and wrote the finding aid, encoded the EAD document and uploaded it to South Texas Archives’ website.