May, 1896 to May 3, 1897

BEXAR, Texas

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...

September, 1915

Hidalgo, Texas

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. ...