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Episodes tagged "Mexican-American": 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. Unlikely Hero: Emma Tenayuca
    date 1932 to 1947map Bexar, Texastags Mexican-American, Emma Tenayuca, The Great Depression, San Antonio, Texas, San Antonio River Walk, The New Deal, WPA, CCC, AAA, Worker's Alliance, Unemployed Council, strikes, Dorothy Frock's Company, Finck Cigar Company

    Mexican-Americans were not immune to the catastrophic effects of The Great Depression.  Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, San Antonio saw an influx of migrant families from the lower Rio Grande Valley in search of work and food.  This migration proved more disastrous to an already delicate situation in the city.  As conditions worsened, an unlikely defender of the Mexican-American people, sixteen-year-old...

  2. Neither Black nor White
    date May, 1896 to May 3, 1897map BEXAR, Texastags Mexican-American, Treaty Guadalupe Hidalgo, Texas-Mexico border, Borderlands, Tejanos, Texas Independance, Judge Thomas S. Maxey, Fourteenth Amendment, Constitution Republic TX, T.J. McMinn, Jack Evans, Right to Vote, In Re Ricardo Rodriguez

    In May of 1896, Ricardo Rodriguez entered a federal court in San Antonio, Texas, and initiated his application for citizenship of the United States thereby requesting the right to vote.  Since Texas declared its independence from Mexico and was annexed into the United States, Tejanos did not qualify for American citizenship because due to “an 1872 federal statute that ruled that only Caucasians...

  3. At the Hands of “los diablos tejanos”
    date September, 1915map Hidalgo, Texastags Mexican-American, Texas Rangers, Treaty Guadalupe Hidalgo, Lynching, Protocol of Queretaro, Borderlands, General Frederick Funston, Texas-Mexico border

    During the first week of September in 1915, Texas Rangers prowled searching for Mexican bandits in Cuevitas, Texas.  An article in the Boston Daily Globe, reported that a Ranger called his fellow companions to come to a halt.  He spotted a group of Mexican men around a campfire and descended from his horse towards them.  The Rangers caught the riders by surprise and quickly placed them under restraint. ...