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...