Maury Maverick, Jr. Papers

Printed material, correspondences, photographs, scrapbooks, awards, personal files, 1920’s to 2003, document the life and activities of Maury Maverick Jr. Organized into series for photographs, correspondences, biographical material, Israel, and written works by Maverick. Within the photographic series there are family photographs, photos of Maury Maverick Sr. with prominent political figures such as Lyndon Baines Johnson, military photographs, and photos from the life of Maury Maverick Jr.

The correspondences series consists of correspondences written to Maverick, correspondences about Maverick, and correspondences from Maverick. The biographical material series is the largest series of works, consisting of scrapbooks, information on his death including funeral programs and newspaper articles, collected newspaper clippings, military papers, a personal account book, awards and certificates, collected items from travels such as a tote bag and a book, and published works written about Maury Maverick Jr.

Of note is the Israel series, which consists of newspaper clippings, letters, opinion pieces, and notes by and about Maverick and his advocacy for Palestine in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This scope of this series is between 1992 and 1998. The final series is a collection of much of the work published by Maury Maverick Jr. in the San Antonio Express News between the 1980’s and 2003, as well as some personal research he used when writing pieces and working as a lawyer. Not present in the collection is his work and papers as a lawyer during the 1960’s and 1970’s nor his papers from when he was active in politics in between the 1940’s and 1960’s.