University of Wyoming
The Ethnic Cultural Media Center was established by the University of Wyoming in 1972 as a place for personal and intellectual exploration on academic excellence, student leadership and advocacy, inter-cultural awareness, and diversity. As such, it functioned as a rally point for many ethnically-centered student organizations, such as the Association of Black Student Leaders (ABSL), the Asian American Student Association (AASA), and most prominently, the Movimento Estudiantil Chicano de Atzlan (MEChA). When the name was changed to the Multicultural Resource Center in 1974, other minority groups on campus became involved, such as the Walk and Roll Student Alliance and the Disabled Students of Wyoming. Since its establishment, the center has held awareness events for the UW campus through its various student organization affiliates and provided a supportive community for minority students on campus focused on activism, awareness, and achievement.
This collection contains scrapbooks compiled by the Multicultural Resource Center from 1972 through 1999 including albums from student groups such as MEChA, ABSL, AACA, and the Walk and Roll Student Alliance. These scrapbooks contain event flyers, local newspaper clippings, and labeled photographs. It also contains 35mm slides and miscellaneous, mostly unidentified photos of the organization throughout its history, and newsletters written by the organization from 1983 through 1997. Also included are materials from the Center’s resource library. This includes two volumes of oral histories from 1981-1983 collected for the History of Hispanics in Wyoming Project, and three informational packets distributed by the Wind River Indians Needs Determination Survey in 1998-1999. This collection also includes archived websites affiliated with the unit.
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There are no known other archival collections created by the University of Wyoming. Multicultural Resource Center at the date of processing.
This material was received from University of Wyoming, Multicultural Resource Center from 2007-2023 and website materials were captured by the University of Wyoming's University Archives from 2019-ongoing.
The collection was processed by Chelsea Nelson in November 2013 and updated by Rachel Gattermeyer in January 2020 and Jamie J. Greene in May 2025.
Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
This series include digital access to archived websites associated with the Multicultural Resource Center.