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Missionary agency of the Michigan Council of Churches. Correspondence, staff reports on local projects, annual reports, treasurer's reports and related printed material; and papers, 1965-1968, of Michigan Migrant Opportunity, Inc. [federally funded organization jointly administered by the Michigan Council of Churches and the Michigan Catholic Conference], including correspondence and reports.

The records of the Michigan Migrant Ministry cover the years 1946 to 1969 with the bulk from 1954 to 1969. One-third of the records consist of committee and project reports from the local community projects. These folders are arranged chronologically with the reports arranged alphabetically by county. The reports contain information about the type and size of the crops in the area, the number and ethnic makeup of the migrants, the types of activities in the communities and personal glimpses of the lives of the laborers. Also included in this series are the annual reports published by the Michigan Migrant Ministry, minutes of the Executive and State Committee Meetings, financial reports, budgets and the minutes of the National Migrant Ministry Meetings from 1954 to 1959.

The records of Michigan Migrant Opportunity, Inc. are part of this collection, also. The records include background information, bylaws of the corporation, executive committee meeting minutes, progress reports and financial reports. Information is also included about the Office of Economic Opportunity and the Title IIIB programs.

Papers of Ted De Leon, Lansing, Mich. Chicano/Latino rights advocate working in the area of migrant and seasonal workers health care. Collection includes material related to Mestizo Anishnabe Health Alliance (MAHA) and other organizations promoting substance abuse and smoking secession and prevention, and mental health care among the minorities, specifically Chicano, Latino, and Native Americans, and De Leon's autobiographical writings.

The bulk of material relates to organizations concerned with Chicano/Latino and Native American health care, substance abuse and disease prevention. Also included records of Chicano/Latino organizations and material related to Latino heritage. The collection includes De Leon's autobiographical writings describing his childhood and life of the Chicano/Latino migrant workers community, also his class project paper on the subject of attitudes toward welfare), drafts of speeches, and contents of scrapbook with clippings of newspaper articles authored by De Leon, as well as newspaper articles he's collected.

Of special importance and interest are four folders containing photocopies of De Leon's autobiography. In his detailed childhood and adolescence memoir De Leon writes about family life and economic and social conditions of seasonal and migrant workers, and describes health issues, housing, work, diet, and educational system. While the narrative mostly describes life in the Southwest, one will find descriptions of Colorado, Ohio and Michigan.

Among records of Chicano/Latino organizations' material are records of organizations affiliated with the University of Michigan and the Michigan State University Schools of Social Work. Records of Trabajadores de la Raza, a minority student organization concerned with maintaining a sizable Chicano population at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, include a recruitment manual, field reports, instructions for interviewers, financial information, and correspondence. Records of the Minority Alliance of Substance Abuse Services (MASAS) include material (correspondence, minutes of meetings, proposals, applications, etc.) concerning the National Institute of Mental Health combined undergraduate and graduate training grant "Latinos for Mental Health/Human Services Manpower." Material originating from several concerned Michigan organizations are found here: Trabajadores por la Raza, Latin-Americans for Social and Economic Development (Detroit, Mich.), Metro-Detroit Jobs for Progress, among others. Midwest Consortium for Latino Research folder includes executive summary and prospectus of a Michigan State University-based project to assist institutions of higher education in the Midwest committed to promoting Latino scholarship. Also found among material related to Chicano/Latino organizations records of Trabajadores por la Raza, a non-profit corporation concerned with providing human services to the Spanish speaking community in the Lansing area. Records include by-laws, organizational chart, and proposal for a minority substance abuse prevention program.

The collection includes records related to Mestizo Anishnabe Health Alliance (MAHA), Ingham county organization working to improve the health of the Hispanic/Latino and Native American/Anishnabe people through education and outreach services with special consideration for cultural and linguistic factors affecting health status. Records of the Mestizo Anishnabe Health Alliance (MAHA) dated between 2000 and 2003 include correspondence, organization's daily activity and annual reports, promotional and outreach material. Found with MAHA material are records of the Circle of Indigenous Races for Community, Leadership and Empowerment (CIRCLE), an ethnic alliance of Chicano/Latino and Native American business and community members. Records include correspondence, reports, proposals, overviews, and legal documents concerning joint MAHA/CIRCLE activities related to the minorities health care initiative in conjunction with the Ingham County Health Department. Also included with MAHA material a research paper "Perceptions of the Health Care System and Access to Medical Care: Group Responses from Latinos and American Indians by Rose M. Colón of Michigan State University. De Leon served as MAHA Project Coordinator during the study.

The collection also includes a number of photographs, most of them undated. There are 9 photographs of what appears to be graves of people of Hispanic heritage, an image of a musical performance, and portrait of a boy. A photograph dated February 3, 2006 depicts De Leon.