The Venegas Family – Mexican American History
In 1927, Miguel Venegas left behind a life that, by most standards, had been a good one. He had a
Brown & Proud – wanting to be a Marine
I know how to take tests. I have taken hundreds of them during my lifetime. I know when I have
They Beat Them for the Clothes. They Couldn’t Kill the Culture. Pachuco Boogie
In South Texas, Mexican Americans created a sound built around the accordion and bajo sexto. It became conjunto, Tejano, and
He Told His Mother “No Tears.” Seventy-Five Years Later, the Mexican-American Soldier Finally Came Home
Three days before one of the worst battles of the Korean War, 19-year-old Celestino Chavez Jr. wrote home to his
Colorado Said Mexicans Were White — While Sending Their Children to a Separate “Mexican School” – one of the earliest lawsuits challenging segregation.
Colorado school officials had an interesting argument in 1914. They were not segregating Mexican-American children by race. Why? Because Mexicans
Too Mexican, too Catholic, too different to belong: New Mexico
Congress Thought New Mexico Was Too Mexican to Become a State When the United States took control of New Mexico
Arizona said we can’t have the “ignorant Mexican vote.”
Arizona Became a State — Then It Found a Way to Keep Mexican Americans From Voting Arizona became the 48th
California Said Mexicans Were Too Dirty to Use the Public Swimming Pool
In San Bernardino, California, Mexican Americans helped pay for the city’s public swimming pool with their taxes. But they were
Company E – Complete training-War-Home
https://indd.adobe.com/view/6d07a0b2-1d37-43ad-b959-51fa09bfaf97 They Were Already Americans Company E, the Mexican-American Texans Who Went to War The 141st Infantry Regiment — “First
Company E, Texas 141st Infantry Regiment, the all-Mexican-American Unit, Part II
Company E Goes to War By the time Company E left Texas, its men had already proven they could shoot.
Company E was all Mexican-American because they were not American enough.
There will be three parts to the story; this is the first part, and the second and third parts include
Dead or in Prison by Eighteen
Recuerdos de un Chicano When I was sixteen, I got a traffic ticket. I thought the ticket was wrong, so
The US went to war for land and slaves
You won’t find it in our history books, but one reason—perhaps one of the major reasons—the United States invaded Mexico
A Mexican Will Never Be President
Recuerdos de un Chicano When I was a boy, a teacher asked the class a question adults often ask children.
The Texas County That Ordered All Mexicans Out
In September 1856, white residents of Colorado County, Texas, became convinced that hundreds of enslaved people were preparing to rise
Proud to Be Brown
How young Texans with little money and a lot of shoe leather built La Raza Unida — and what Texas
Manuel Barrera’s World War II Medals
For years, I wondered what those medals meant and why my dad received them. Those seven bars- I had no
