1 10 1 http://usldhrecovery.uh.edu/files/original/1/253/pera0041_0001.jpg e2930c91be8a8b0c1c060bbab04dff28 http://usldhrecovery.uh.edu/files/original/1/253/pera0041_0002.jpg 4438aa2473d586b2c5429fc16d822df0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alonso S. Perales Collection Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Alonso S. Perales Papers Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Arte Público Press/Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Arte Público Press Language A language of the resource Spanish English Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Perales, Alonso S. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPEG Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Photograph Subject The topic of the resource PERALES, Alonso S., 1898-1960 LEAGUE of United Latin American Citizens CIVIC participation: working for civil rights MEXICAN Americans LATINO Americans ACTIVISTS RACE discrimination Relation A related resource Alonso S. Perales Papers, University of Houston Libraries Special Collections EBSCO Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 2 Description An account of the resource Alonso S. Perales (1898-1960) was a lawyer, statesman, diplomat, author, writer, speaker. His collection is held at the University of Houston's Special Collections. A sampling of his photographs, letters, and documents are included here. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Perales, Alonso S. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource To Hon. L. A. Woods, From Alonso S. Perales, Attorney for Hondo Council 1 No. 37 of The League of United Latin American Citizens, Feb. 18, 1938. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Perales, Alonso S. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Alonso S. Perales Papers: LULAC & Sons of America: Correspondence, 1927-1957. University of Houston Libraries Special Collections EBSCO Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 2 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1938-02-18 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPEG Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context pera0041 Subject The topic of the resource DISCRIMINATION in education DISCRIMINATION against Latin Americans WORLD politics PERALES, Alonso S., 1898-1960 LETTERS LEAGUE of United Latin American Citizens Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant HONDO (Tex.) Description An account of the resource Letter from Alonso S. Perales to L.A.Woods. The letter is in regard to the Honda School Boards demotion of Latin American school children demoted from the fifth grade to the fourth grade to prevent the childrens eligibility into the main school. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Items in this collection may be under copyright. Please contact apprec@central.uh.edu for more information. Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. Feb. 18, 1938. Hon. L.A. Woods, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Austin, Texas My dear Dr. Woods: On June 25, 1937 I wrote you for the first time with reference to the desire of the Latin American citizens of Hondo, Texas to secure adequate school facilities for the children of Mexican extraction of that District. You answered this and other letters with reference to the same subject and send me a copy of a letter addressed by you to Dr. H.J. Meyers, President of the Hondo School Board, under date of September 1st 1937, for all of which courtesies we thank you sincerely. Since that time your Representatives Mr. John Olsen and Mrs. P.E. Dickinson have conferred and communicated with the said School Board and their Superintendent Mr. J. Gordon Barry, and all we have gotten in the way of school facilities for said children has been the placing of eleven children from the Latin American school in grades five, six and seven in the main school; not, however, without the Hondo School Board making the Latin American citizenry of Hondo pay a rather dear price for this concession, as several Latin American children were demoted from the fifth to the fourth grade in order to prevent their being eligible for admission to the main school. The School Board is at liberty, of course, to adduce all the pedagogical arguments they may care to in support of their action, but to us Latin Americans it was just smart strategy on their part to have as few Latin American children as possible attend the main school. The next and only other thing we have gotten has been the repeated promise of the Hondo School Board to erect a modern and well-equipped primary building for the Latin American children, a promise which, by the way, is over a year old; this, nothwithstanding that in your letter of September 1st 1937 to Dr. J. H. Meyer you stated to him: "You and your Board are under obligations to give all the children within the confines of your school district equal educational opportunities, and I shall expect a letter from you immediately stating that the relief for the Mexican children is being given -- not next year, but for the scholastic year." I am enclosing copies of letters exchanged by the writer with your Representative Mrs. P.E. Dickinson, which are self-explanatory. From in the "Promise Stage", and it seems that the Hondo School Board just simply will not do any more. Cartas Discriminación contra Latinos Discriminación en la educación L.U.L.A.C. Liga de Ciudadanos Latinoamericanos Unida Perales, Alonso S. Politica global State Superintendent of Public Instruction