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To Hon. J. O. Loftin, Kingsville, Texas, From Alonso S. Perales, San Antonio, Texas, August 12, 1938
A followup letter from Alonso S. Perales to J. O. Loftin, President of Texas College of Arts and Industries regarding a report that Latin-American women were denied admission into a dorm due to their race. -
To Hon. Alonzo S. Perales, From George Reid, Sociedad Mutualista Mexicana, Feb. 16, 1941.
Letter to Alonso Perales from George Reid, an American Baptist preacher from Fort Worth Texas. He begins the letter regarding the situations taking place at the mining camp in Malakoff Texas. Doctors were charging high prices and ordering unnecessary procedures to take care of the Mexicans who were sick. These Mexican individuals and families were forced to pay or “risk death of their sick”. He would like to begin the process of organizing a “chain of hospitals and clinics all over Texas in the way of cooperative medicine”. The Baptist Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas is available with all equipment for $50,000. Mr. Reid mentions ways to raise money by way of donations. Mr. Reid writes that “the movement out to start from the initiative of the Mexicans themselves”, and that “it should be run by Mexicans for Mexicans”. -
To Hon. Alonso S. Perales, Nicaraguan Consul General, From Mrs. W. W. Dees, State Director General, Pan American Round Tables, March 24, 1939
Letter to Alonso S. Perales from Mrs. W. W. Dees State Director General of the Pan American Round Tables. Letter thanks Mr. Perales on his address of the “Good Neighbor Policy” and “Recent Developments in the Western Hemisphere during the Pan American Round Table Convention. She also states that his address did a great favor to the State organization, and the local Table. -
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 Governor Coke Stevenson, Executive Department, From Lorenzo G. Lafarelle, Alphine, Texas, September 30, 1943.
Letter to Governor Coke Stevenson from Lorenzo G. Lafarelle, submitting a formal complaint of racial discrimination by Mr. C.W. Davis. manager for a movie theater establishment in Alpine Texas. Mr. Lafarelle is a Sergeant in the Texas State Guard and demands an apology from Mr. C.W. Davis and requests that the Governor provide information regarding the outcome of the complaint. Good Neighbor Commission is referenced. -
To Frank Hines, From [Unknown], November 1, 1942
Letter from [Unknown] to Frank Hines regarding an instance of discrimination at Sommers Cafe in Anson, Texas where he and others were refused service because they were of Mexican descent. -
To Father Birch, From Alonso S. Perales, May 10, 1944
Letter From Alonso S. Perales to Father Birch regarding the discrimination Mexican Americans face in Texas, including residential segregation, exclusion from jury duty, wage inequalities, and voter suppression. -
To El Sol, Tiajuana, B. C., From Arturo Ortiz
Letter from Arturo Ortiz to the newspaper El Sol, regarding an incident of discrimination in which two veterans of Mexican descent were refused service at Restaurant Dinette. A violent altercation followed and a white woman dining at the restaurant was injured. -
To Dr. Will W. Alexander, Chief, Minority Groups Service Branch, From Donald G. Kobler, Texas Regional Director, October 14, 1942.
Letter to Dr. Will W. Alexander, Chief Minority Groups Service Branch from Donald G. Kobler, Texas Regional Director. The letter describes discrimination taking plays at Roy’s Café, on North First Street in Lamesa Texas. Sign on door states “No Mexican’s”. Donald Kobler would like to see federal action to “eliminate…Nazi-like discrimination”. -
To Dr. N. T. Gibson, Director, Robstown Hospital, From [Unknown], Postal Telegraph
Telegraph from [Unknown] accusing Dr. N. T. Gibson of segregating people of Mexican descent in the Robstown Hospital waiting rooms and placing them in dark and uncomfortable rooms.