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To Chamber of Commerce, Castroville, Texas, From Acting Consul General, San Antonio, Texas, August 19, 1938

Item

pera0263_page-0001.jpg

Dublin Core

Title

To Chamber of Commerce, Castroville, Texas, From Acting Consul General, San Antonio, Texas, August 19, 1938

Subject

Letters
Racial discrimination
Discrimination against Mexican Americans
Public interest law
Race discrimination--public establishments

Description

Letter from the Acting Consul General to the Chamber of Commerce regarding an incident in which the children of the Chancellor at their consulate were ejected from a public pool because they were of Mexican descent. The author asks the Chamber of Commerce to help prevent future incidents.

Creator

Acting Consul General

Source

Date

1938-08-19

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

JPG

Language

English

Type

Text

Identifier

pera0263

Coverage

Castroville (Tex.)

Citation

Acting Consul General, “To Chamber of Commerce, Castroville, Texas, From Acting Consul General, San Antonio, Texas, August 19, 1938,” Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Digital Collections, accessed October 15, 2024, http://usldhrecovery.uh.edu/items/show/4835.