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On Martin Luther King day, it should be remembered that the largest most prominent Mexican-American civic organizations publicly denounced, ridiculed, and spoke out against the march on Washington.
The MACRI Visitor Center is closed today, Monday, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday.
If you are in San Antonio, the nation's largest MLK Day March starts at 10am at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy, followed by a celebration at Pittman-Sullivan Park.
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Segregation and integration in Texas had nothing to do with Mexican-Americans. They were on the white side of the color line. They were complicit. Today historians want to sweep that under the rug and tell the story differently.
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In 1956, A group of “white and latin American” youth were implicated in a cross-burning in front of Seguin High School in TX, shortly after six Negro students had integrated it.
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Great reading that NP supports. Fri Dec 8, 6 p. Free at The #LatinoBookstore at the @TheGuadalupe hosted by our own Tony Diaz @Librotraficante. You can also see the exhibit #RefusingToForget. #MexicanAmericanHistory #ChicanoPower #TellYourStory
Fabulous podcast on #SantosRodriguez and the resurrection of his story. #RememberSantos #RefusingToForget
So we're really going back to THOSE days. @Refusing2Forget has been educating Texas communities on former incarnations of #HB7.
*spoiler*
A lot of Brown people were killed
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#RefusingToForget CRYSTAL CITY.
This is one example of the BRUTALITY by @TxDPS Texas Rangers against Mexican Americans. WE KNOW OUR HISTORY. #txlege #LosRinches
#OTD in 1963, Texas Gov. John Connally dispatched Ranger Captain Alfred Young "A. Y." Allee to Crystal City. Connally did so to "keep the peace" during the local election cycle for city and county offices. Instead Allee would go on to brutalize several Mexican Americans. /1
Let’s keep learning, sharing our history in South Texas. We will not be gaslighted. Follow Twitter page👇🏽and represent for the atrocities committed against our communities. #UvaldeMassacre is the latest of decades. #txlege @TxDPS #RefusingToForget https://t.co/vi6mXyw17i
I will live my life #RefusingToForget.
9th generation Tejana from Roma, Texas, Starr County.
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#OTD on February 12, 1919, the eleventh day of the Canales Hearings took place in the Texas state capitol. It was characterized by debates about the need for the Rangers and denigration of the humanity of ethnic Mexican victims. /1
Los Rinches aka The Texas Rangers, were basically Operation Lonestar, but with extra racist permissions to kill native people and Tejanos-- anyone without light skin-- in the Rio Grande Valley #RefusingToForget
#OTD on January 15, 1919, State Representative José Tomás Canales, representing the Rio Grande Valley, along the border with Mexico, filed House Bill 5, calling a reform of the Texas Rangers. This action inaugurated the greatest crisis in the history of the Ranger Force . . . /1
The hearings lasted 12 days, featured 80 witnesses, and generated 1400 pages of testimony. This effort nearly cost JT his life and ultimately pushed him to not run for reelection. #RGV #Txlege #RefusingToForget @Refusing2Forget
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The most up-to-date data of documented lynchings in the United States between (1883-1941) counts 71 persons of Mexican-American descent among a total of 4,467.
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People today are even trying to write LULAC into civil rights history, even though they wanted nothing to to with civil rights.
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LULAC is the oldest and most celebrated Latino organization. Bring their history to the forefront.
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@stevanzetti You said all of that but didn't post the thread that uploaded it for the twitter audience? #LatinoHistory #HispanicHistory #RefusingtoForget #TexasHistory
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In “Virginia where the law has called for forced integration, the town plans to close public schools and open them as private schools for white students. This can also happen in Texas…to white Spanish-speaking students…Vote against the integrationist…”
A period of Texas history not taught in the State's schools. @MayraABC13 did an excellent job with this special report: "La Matanza". "El que no conoce su historia, está condenado a repetirla". #refusingtoforget
https://t.co/r6F0U416f8
Read the report that was banned for 50 years from release and has never been made easily available to the public in a readable format or printed at https://t.co/r8BdMoxDQh.
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This important book publishes next week.
Edited by @soniahistoria & @JMGonzalezUT of the award-winning @Refusing2Forget, REVERBERATIONS OF RACIAL VIOLENCE details systematic, extralegal killings of Mexicans along the US southern border in the 1910s. #RefusingToForget #AmHist
Discover the Refusing to Forget Project. Historians documenting the history of racial violence along the Mexico-Texas border.
https://t.co/iyo3R4mwQp
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