San Antonio launches nation's first Mexican American Civil Rights ...

Discrimination against Mexican Americans in the Southwest. It was the first time that the issue of Mexican American civil rights had ever reached the United ...

Chicano/Latino Movements History and Geography

LULAC has represented Mexican Americans since 1929, making it one of the nation's oldest surviving Latino civil rights organization. Founded in Corpus Christi ...

FBI San Antonio History

These agents and others who joined them in the first years of the Bureau investigated a variety of cases, from peonage—an early civil rights violation—to ...

Biden-Harris Administration Awards Nearly $50 Million to Hispanic ...

The University of Texas at San Antonio, $520,346. $11,095,717. A list of ... U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights today ...

Border Patrol History | U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Throughout the early 1950s, a special taskforce of 800 Border Patrol agents was assigned by the United States Attorney General to round up and ...

UTSA Libraries tour highlights local influence on Mexican American ...

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 — A new, interactive tour produced by the UTSA Libraries and Institute of Texan Cultures allows users to experience San Antonio's ...

American Latino Theme Study: Education (U.S. National Park Service)

The Aoy Preparatory School in El Paso, Texas is illustrative of the shift of Spanish language schools to public schools which stressed "American ...

Breakfast Taco Wars: Race, History, and Food in Austin and San ...

Yet this metaphor masks that, in terms of racial integration, Austin's African and Mexican American leaders have had a greater struggle to ...

San Antonio: Growth and Success in the Mexican-American Capital

And this is impelling people to move here, creating a more interesting demographic mix. The city's historic ties to Mexico have long cemented it ...

Hispanic Heroes Art Installation on the San Antonio River Walk

The project is an extension of the organization's online Chispas exhibit, highlighting Mexican American civil rights trailblazers who have ...

The Invention of Hispanics: What It Says About the Politics of Race

Such views may surprise readers today, but this was the way many Mexican Americans saw their race until mid-century. They had the law on their ...

The Case of San Antonio, Texas, 1960-1965 - jstor

The Civil-Rights Struggle in America (New. York, 1964). Research for ... 38 Grebler, Moore, Guzman, et al., The Mexican-American People: The Nation's Second.

IDRA Milestones Across Five Decades to Fulfill the Promise of ...

San Antonio ISD ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, Texans for Educational Excellence (TEE) started with a $95,000 grant to conduct school finance research and ...

Trump's gains among Latinos push a Civil Rights group to reflect on ...

On a cold and rainy Sunday in February 1929, a group of Latino men in dapper suits and boater hats gathered in a convention hall in Corpus ...

Mexican American Civil Rights in Texas by Robert Brischetto | eBook

... San Antonio that introduced the Mexican American people to the rest of the nation ... launch their research on Mexican American civil rights issues during ...

Lyndon Johnson, Mexican Americans,and the Border (Chapter 5)

His concern for advancing the civil rights of Mexican Americans was genuine and stemmed from his interactions with them since he was a young ...

5 Key Moments in Modern History for Latinos - Salud America!

The case served as a win for “the 'other White' concept, the legal strategy of Mexican-American civil-rights activists from 1930 to 1970, ...

Texas, 78207: America's Most Radical School Integration Experiment

Martinez thought he knew poverty, both personally and as a professional committed to eradicating it. But what he saw in San Antonio was familiar ...

United Nations | Peace, dignity and equality on a healthy planet

Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, advocates for a human rights-based approach to water management, arguing that access should not depend on an individual's ability to pay.

Texas History Timeline

In search of new opportunities in the unsettled territory of Tejas, Moses Austin hoped to bring 300 families to the Mexican province in 1820.