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LULAC, Adela Sloss-Vento, and the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

Historian Cynthia Orozco has a new book out titled Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican-American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist, which excavates the importance of a feminist figure of the Mexican American Civil Rights movement, adding to the scholarship that unearths the “forgotten” history of women’s importance in major Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 1 year8 months ago
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Lost! Cabeza de Vaca Stumbles Through Southwestern North America in the “Age of Exploration”

Like many of the Spanish conquistadors who made their way to the Americas, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca joined an expedition to explore “Florida” in search of glory and, ideally, an encomienda of his own. (“Florida” is what the Spanish called all of the land around the Gulf of Mexico, Read more…

By Averill Earls, 1 year8 months ago
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Anti-Mexican Mob Violence in the Borderlands: A Lynching in Rocksprings, Texas

In November 1910 two tragic events occurred in Rocksprings, Texas, a tiny rural community almost 200 miles west of Austin and San Antonio. Within the span of a few days, two individuals were violently murdered, one killed point blank by a shotgun blast to the back and to the head, Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 2 years8 months ago
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