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Letter to Leonor Villegas de Magnón from General Alfredo Ricaut
Letter to Leonor Villegas de Magnón from General Alfredo Ricaut -
To Alonso S. Perales, From Jose M. Reyes, Francisco Cardoza, Ygnacio Vardosa, Bacilio Arenas, Jesus Arelado, Andres Ermosillo, Benito Velasquez, Acension Rodriguez, March 22, 1944
Letter from parents in Mitchell County, Texas to Alonso S. Perales regarding the racial discrimination and physical violence their children face in school and requesting his assistance. -
To Alonzo [Alonso] S. Perales, From Carlos Reyes B., Abril 28 de 1943.
Letter from Carlos Reyes B. to Alonso S. Perales regarding the need for an anti-discrimination law to protect people of Mexican descent. -
Angela de Hoyos retrato/portrait
Retrato de Angela de Hoyos por Al Rendón para el artículo "Poeta chicana de dos mundos" de Melanie Young. -
To Hon. Alonzo S. Perales, From George Reid, Sociedad Mutualista Mexicana, Feb. 16, 1941.
Letter to Alonso Perales from George Reid, an American Baptist preacher from Fort Worth Texas. He begins the letter regarding the situations taking place at the mining camp in Malakoff Texas. Doctors were charging high prices and ordering unnecessary procedures to take care of the Mexicans who were sick. These Mexican individuals and families were forced to pay or “risk death of their sick”. He would like to begin the process of organizing a “chain of hospitals and clinics all over Texas in the way of cooperative medicine”. The Baptist Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas is available with all equipment for $50,000. Mr. Reid mentions ways to raise money by way of donations. Mr. Reid writes that “the movement out to start from the initiative of the Mexicans themselves”, and that “it should be run by Mexicans for Mexicans”. -
Sombrero note
handwritten note, chief of police, sombrero records related -
Siete veces el sueño
Collection of short stories -
El Barrio Chihuahuita, 1972
A short reflection piece about barrio Chihuahuita -
Affidavit sworn by Joseph Robles Ramón and Alfonso Galindo Ramón to Alonso S. Perales
Affidavit sworn by Joseph Robles Ramón and Alfonso Galindo Ramón to Alonso S. Perales that states that they were refused service at the Helotes Dance Hall and Tavern. -
To Alonso S. Perales, From Jose C. Ramon, March 7, 1944
Letter from Jose C. Ramon to Alonso S. Perales informing him about the segregation Mexican-Americans face in the Waco City jail.