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To Mr. Coke Stevenson, Governor, From Ricardo Ogas, September 18, 1943.
Letter to Governor Coke Stevenson from Ricardo Ogas a U.S. Naval Reservist regarding an incident of racial discrimination that took place in a local pool hall in Alpine Texas. Frank Young, manager of the Pool Hall refused to allow Mr. Ogas to play because he was a “Mexican boy”. In the letter, Mr. Ogas is requesting an apology. -
To Mr. J. T. Canales, Attorney-at-Law, BROWNSVILLE, Texas, from [PERALES] 900 - 19th Street Apartment, N. W., Apartment 208, Washington, D. C., November 4, 1926.
Letter to J.T, Canales from [PERALES] discussing returning to Texas to practice law.
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To Mr. J. T. Canales, Brownsville, Texas, from [PERALES], October 31, 1927.
Letter to Mr. J.T. Canales from [PERALES] requesting the organization create a Constitution and By-Laws. [PERALES} suggests changing the organization's name to the League of American Citizens of Latin Descent. -
To Mr. Si [Simon] Casady, Editor, Valley Evening Monitor, From Alonso S. Perales, April 24, 1947
Alonso S. Perales thanks Simon "Si" Cassady for agreeing to submit an article for his forthcoming book. -
To Mr. Simon Casady, Editor, Valley Evening Monitor, From Alonso S. Perales, April 5, 1947
Letter to Simon "Si" Casady, Editor of the Valley Evening Monitor from Alonso S. Perales. Alonso S. Perales had decided to publish a book in English, that included 100 affidavits regarding cases of discrimination against those of Mexican descent. Alonso S. Perales asked Simon Casady if he could contribute an article for his book. -
To Mr. Tom C. Clark, Assistant Attorney General, From Alonso S. Perales, Director General, Committee of One Hundred, The League of Loyal Americans, Dec. 14, 1944.
Letter from Alonso S. Perales to Assistant Attorney General Tom C. Clark regarding the discrimination against Mexican and Latin Americans in the Southwest. The letter requests an answer to three questions from a previous letter and whose response would be of interest to the three million Mexican inhabitants of the United States and the quarter of a million soldiers of Mexican descent in the military. Perales states that the F.B.I has a right to "investigate UN-AMERICAN activities". -
To Mr. Tom C. Clark, Assistant Attorney General, From Alonso S. Perales, Director General, Committee of One Hundred, The League of Loyal Americans, Nov. 6, 1944.
Letter from Alonso S. Perales to Tom Clark regarding a law against discriminating on the basis of race, ethnicity, or nation origin. -
To Mr. Tom Clark, Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, From Alonso S. Perales, President, Committee of One Hundred, The League of Loyal Americans, October 31, 1944.
Letter to Tom Clark, Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, from Alonso S. Perales , President of the League of Loyal Americans. The letter articulates that based on the list, compiled by Alosno Perales, the Department of Justice should investigate those towns and cities in the State of Texas who practice discrimination. Mr. Perales also writes that the War Department should investigate the discimination happening to American soldiers of Mexican descent. -
To Mr. Tom Clark, United States Department of Justice, From Alonso S. Perales, President, Committee of One Hundred, The League of Loyal Americans, Oct. 26, 1944.
Letter to United States Department of Justice with attention to Mr. Tom Clark from Alonso Perales, President for Committee of One Hundred and the League of Loyal Americans. Would like the Department of Justice to begin an investigation as to the motive of those owners of establishments who do discriminate. Alonso Perales requests that the War Department and the Department of Justice inform President Roosevelt of the situations taking place in Texas, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico and to ask Congress to enact a law “forbidding the humiliation of persons of Mexican extraction anywhere in the United States.”Tags Cartas; Clark, Tom; Committee of One Hundred; Discriminación contra mexicoamericanos; Discriminación racial; Estados Unidos - Póliza gubernamental; Estados Unidos, Departmento de Justico; Estados Unidos, Oficina del Instituto Nacional de la Estadística; Investigaciones Gubernamentales; Perales, Alonso S.; Personal Militar; Soldados-Mexicanoamericanos; The League of Loyal Americans -
To Mrs. W.W. Dees, State Director General, Pan American Round Tables, From Alonso S. Perales, Jan. 31, 1939
Letter to Mrs. W.W. Dees, State Director General of the Pan American Round Tables from Alonso S. Perales. In the letter Alonso S. Perales thanks Mrs. W.W. Dees for the invitation to address the Pan American Convention on March 10th. The subject for his presentation is “The Good Neighbor Policy and Recent Development in the Western Hemisphere”.