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W. L. Wilkinson Papers
This Kleberg County Extension Agent left his personal records covering the period from 1925 through 1949 of his activities in Kenedy County from 1936-1949, and Jackson County from 1919-1925. As the county agent he helped small and large farmers and ranchers in the two counties dominated by the large and famous King and Kenedy Ranches. Materials include correspondence, annual reports, photographs and newspaper clippings that reveal the agricultural endeavors going on in these counties.

John F. and Ethel Goode Collection
The Hon. John F. Goode, Sr. was Mayor of Kingsville from 1922 to 1930. He and his wife, Sarah H. Good and his family relocated from Selado, Texas. They had five children and his son John F. Goode Jr. and wife, Ethel, donated the photographs of early Kingsville to Texas A&I University, now Texas A&M University-Kingsville in his later years.

Ramiro (Ramsey) Muniz Collection
This collection contains one audio, video tape and twenty handwritten letters of Ramiro Muniz, known as Ramsey Muniz, founder of La Raza Unida in Texas, an incarcerated Hispanic political activist who ran for governor of Texas in 1972 and 1974, each time as the nominee of the Raza Unida Party. Mr. Muniz writes from prison in 2002 to Texas A&M University-Kingsville student, Michelle Arevelo-Ketto, who is researching the Raza Unida Party for a term paper.