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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 Robert K. Carr, President's Committee on Fair Employment Practice, From [Carlos E. Castañeda], Professor of History, May 9, 1947.
Letter to Robert K. Carr regarding the employment discrimination suffered by Mexican Americans. -
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 Rev. James R. Cassidy, O.M.I, Chaplain, Catholic War Veterans, From Alonso S. Perales, March 7, 1947
Letter to Reverend James R. Cassidy O.M.I Chaplain, Catholic War Veterans from Alonso S. Perales discussing the discrimination which had been taking place in the Rio Grande Valley. He encloses some opinions to help I Reverend Cassidy in convincing those who do not recognize Mexicans (us) as whites. Mr. Perales writes that he will published a book in English containing approximately 100 affidavits of concrete cases of discrimination. -
To Mr. Alonso S. Perales, From Maria Antonia Chavez Saldana, March 6, 1940
Letter to Alonso S. Perales from Maria Antonia Chavez Saldana thanking him for a copy of his book “En Defensa de mi Raza “[In Defense of my People]. In her letter she discusses the racism that Mexican Americans face and how the younger generation are becoming bitter, because Mexican boys are not given a “square deal”. She also mentions her family’s long lineage of settling in San Antonio, starting from 1715. She also talks highly about her son’s and their endeavors. -
To C. Alonzo Perales [Alonso S. Perales], From Agustin Delgado, 29 de Junio de 1944.
Letter from Agustín Delgado to Alonso S. Perales asking for suggestions and help as to how to deal with cases of racial discrimination against people of Mexican descent. -
To Sr. Licensiado Alonso Perales, From Agustin Delgado, Julia 5 de 1944
Letter from Agustín Delgado to Alonso S. Perales that lists establishments that discriminate against people of Mexican descent, including US military veterans in uniform, in Victoria, Texas. -
To Hon. Alonso Perales, From Eloisa Galan, March 11, 1944.
Letter to Alonso. S. Perales, from Mrs. Eloisa Galan that iterates the Del Rio Ration Board (Civil Service Department) need Spanish speaking clerks to assist those who do not speak English from nearby Spanish speaking communities. She states that there are people in the department who are "prejudice and narrow minded”. She requests Alonso S. Perales to contact Mr. Ben Foster, former United States Attorney at San Antonio to in turn contact C. Fenner Roth, District Administrative Officer of the OPA to provide Spanish speaking clerks. Mrs. Galan also references that Mexican American soldiers, fighting for the United States who are also being discriminated against, and how the Ration Board food clerks are treating the families of these soldiers “shabbily”. She believes that help from Badomer Puig, Commanding Office of the 458th and Mrs. Dignam of the Ration Board can help by employing wives of the Mexican American soldiers in the Telephone Office and the Ration Board. -
To Sr. Lic. Alonso S. Perales, From Ramon Galindo, Real Estate & Renting Service, Mayo 5, 1943
Letter from Ramon Galindo to Alonso S. Perales in which he reports housing discrimination against people of Mexican descent in San Antonio. -
To Alonso S. Perales, From Antonio R Garcia 317th Army Air Force, February 25, 1944
Letter from Antonio R. García to Alonso S. Perales, which lists some of the cases of discrimination against people of Mexican descent that occured in Brady, Texas.Tags Cartas; Curtis Field (Brady, Tex.); Discriminación; Discriminación contra Latinos; Discriminación contra mexicoamericanos; Discriminación en la educación; Discriminación racial - establecimientos públicos; Fuerza Aérea de la Armada de los Estados Unidos, Grupo de Transporte de Tropa, 317; Mexicoamericanos; Perales, Alonso S.