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Some Places Where Mexicans are Discriminated Against in Texas Either by Denying them Service or by Segregating them from Anglo-Americans
A list compiled by Alonso S. Perales from affidavits of places where people of Mexican descent were denied service or segregated in Texas.Tags Bars (establecimiento de bebidas) -- Texas; Bluntzer; Cartas de queja; Discriminación contra mexicoamericanos; Discriminación en la educación; Discriminación en vivienda; Discriminación étnica; Discriminación racial - establecimientos públicos; Discriminación racial - restaurantes; Discrimination; Educación--Niños; Estados Unidos--Estados suroeste; Ética de los empleos públicos - Estados Unidos; Hispanoamericanos -- Educación; Letreros; Mexicoamericanos -- Educación; Natalia; NewGulf; Nixon; Personal Militar; Rock Spring; Segregación en la educación; Soldados-Mexicanoamericanos; Sterling City; Veterano -
Affidavit sworn by Beatriz Balboa de Espino and Zenobia Silva de Aguirre to Alonso S. Perales
Affidavit sworn by Beatriz Balboa de Espino and Zenobia Silva de Aguirre stating that they visited the Office of R.L. White Co. where they were told they could not rent a house because they were not white. -
Affidavit sworn by Dionicio Mendez Ortiz to Alonso S. Perales
Affidavit sworn by Dionicio Mendez Ortiz stating that he was turned away at a barber shop and a restaurant, then slapped by the sheriff. -
Affidavit sworn by Pedro Muñoz to Alonso S. Perales
Affidavit sworn by Pedro Muñoz stating that he, along with Enrique de la Rosa and Jose Vidal, could not play pool at the Three Star Tavern. -
To Sr. Lic. Alonso S. Perales, From Florencia Sainz de Acosta, Octubre 7, de 1940.
Letter to Alonso S. Perales from Florencia Sainz de Acosta railing against the injustice of segregation practices taking place within schools and the military. -
To. Sr. Lic. Alonso S. Perales, From Silvestre M. Zepeda, Feb. 19th, 1944.
Letter from Silvestre M. Zepeda to Alonso S. Perales regarding discrimination of Mexican American military personnel that took place in San Antonio, Texas. -
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. 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, 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 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.