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Mexico’s Mass Disappearances and the Drug War (Ayotzinapa: The Missing 43 Students) : The Ayotzinapa Collection

This research guide was created after the exhibition Ayotzinapa: We Will Not Wither, held at Memorial Library from September 16 to October 30, 2015.

The Ayotzinapa Collection

Ephemera is any written or printed material not meant to be preserved.

The Ayotzinapa Collection contains posters, flyers, magazines, match boxes, stickers, postcards, flags, posterboards, DVDs, newspaper clippings, and booklets collected during the three massive demonstrations held in Mexico in 2014 where thousands of people demanded the return of the 43 disappeared students along with the many thousands of civilians that have also been forcibly disappeared.

The Ayotzinapa Collection is held at Special Collections in Memorial Library.

You can see the images of the Ayotzinapa Collection here.

For detailed information about each object in the collection (size, type, brief description), please follow this LINK and click directly on the image.

The Ayotzinapa Collection