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Hace 5 días · The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands by Nicholas Villanueva Jr. More than just a civil war, the Mexican Revolution in 1910 triggered hostilities along the border between Mexico and the United States. In particular, the decade following the revolution saw a dramatic rise in the lynching of ethnic Mexicans in Texas.
Hace 5 días · This research guide seeks to introduce students and researchers to the Mexican Revolution and its impact on the Rio Grande Valley and United States. This guide also highlights which various digital and archival materials pertaining to the Mexican Revolution are available via UTRGV Special Collections and Archives.
Hace 5 días · When a revolution against the DÃaz government broke out in 1910, the railroad network it had built (with U.S. investment) made it possible for many members of the Mexican peasantry to flee the upheaval and immigrate to the United States.
Hace 2 días · The Chicano Movement was a means to break from the chains of assimulation and to stand idle in the face of oppression. Chicanos fought for many privileges that would help keep Mexican-Americans from losing their identities as Mexicans. They sought to have their voices represented equally in Congress, in local offices, and even in ...
Hace 3 días · Employers in southwestern states like Texas and Arizona viewed Mexican labor as vital to the region's prosperity and successfully lobbied Congress to exempt Mexican immigrants from a literacy test requirement enacted in 1917.
Hace 3 días · Elisa Silva was born in Mazatlán, Mexico and emigrated to the United States at age twenty, eventually settling in Los Angeles. In this interview, conducted during the mid-1920s, Silva describes her motivation for coming, her difficulties finding work, and the job she eventually obtained at a dance hall. I am twenty-three years old.
Hace 3 días · Mexicans who resided in that territory were subjected to discrimination. According to conservative estimates, 597 Mexicans were lynched between 1848 and 1928, corresponding to a per capita lynching rate second only to that suffered by the African American community. Racist sign from the deep south (National Civil Rights Museum)
