Kingsville Independent School District (KISD)
Janet Cooper Collection
Files and legal papers from the court cases of Janet Cooper vs. Kingsville Independent School District. Janet Cooper sued for nonrenewal of her contract due to a teaching method she employed called the Sunshine Project. The Sunshine Project involved role playing and simulation to dramatize conversion of a radically segregated society during Reconstruction to one less segregated. Eight years of litigation resulted and the case went to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Cooper won the case, was reinstated, and received back pay, retirement pay, and lawyer fees.
Maggie Blanco Salinas Papers
This collection describes Maggie Salinas’ community involvement and contributions to Kingsville during the last half of the twentieth century and first part of twenty-first century. A business owner, Salinas volunteered her time and resources to many local and regional organizations. The projects range from La Posada de Kingsville to being a member on the Advisory Board with the Texas A&M University-Kingsville Engineering Department.
Kaye Presley Collection
The Kaye Presley Collection contains Texas A&I memorabilia, King Ranch sale brochures, records from a variety of organizations and hundreds of negatives and photographs of students, faculty, and staff from the Kingsville and Riviera Independent School Districts taken when Presley was the Public Relations Specialist for the school districts.
Vicente Salazar, Sr. Family Collection
A collection of digital Photographs and documents that tell the story of Vicente Salazar Sr.'s life and family opening and working at the Salazar Store on 6th and Richard Street in Kingsville, Texas, in the early 1900s.
Pat & Alfred Gross Collection
The collection consists of mostly photographs of Alfred and Patricia Gross' professional and personal lives. They are materials from their estate donated by a great nephew of Alfred Gross, Brian T. Grisham. Dr. Gross was the head of Industrial Technology and a long time Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M University-Kingsville) faculty member. Pat Gross was the Curriculum director for the Kingsville Independent School District.