To Major General James L. Collins, Commanding Officer, From [Alonso S. Perales], Director General, The League of Loyal Americans, December 24, 1940.
Item
Dublin Core
Title
To Major General James L. Collins, Commanding Officer, From [Alonso S. Perales], Director General, The League of Loyal Americans, December 24, 1940.
Subject
DISCRIMINATION against Mexican Americans
MILITARY Personnel
LETTERS
COLLINS, James L. (James Lawton), 1882-1963
PERALES, Alonso S., 1898-1960
ETHNIC discrimination
MEXICAN American Soldiers
Description
Letter to Major General James L. Collins from Alonso Perales, Director General of the League of Loyal Americans regarding the discrimination of U.S. soldiers of Mexican descent. The letter describes how two Mexican Americans, both in United States Army Uniforms are denied admittance to two barbershops located in San Antonio, Texas. Owners of both shops stated they can “deny service or admittance to whomever they please”. Alonso Perales also notes a barbershop in Harlandale Texas also denied service to a member of the Honduran Air Corps. Requests “remedial action from both national and international standpoints.”
Creator
[Perales, Alonso S.]
Source
Date
1940-12-24
Rights
Content compilation of The Latino/Hispanic American Experience Leaders, Writers and Thinkers copyright 2012 by Arte Publico Historical Collections. All rights reserved.
Relation
Format
JPEG
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
pera0040
Coverage
SAN Antonio (Tex.)
Collection
Citation
[Perales, Alonso S.], “To Major General James L. Collins, Commanding Officer, From [Alonso S. Perales], Director General, The League of Loyal Americans, December 24, 1940.,” Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Digital Collections, accessed April 30, 2024, http://usldhrecovery.uh.edu/items/show/376.