Posted on Apr 20, 2022
Grant helps spread forgotten history of racial violence against Mexican Americans
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An exhibit documenting violence against and killings of Mexican Americans and Mexicans has won a national grant that will be used to spread knowledge about an overlooked part of American history.
The bilingual exhibit, titled “Life and Death on the Border, 1910-20,” by the Refusing to Forget project, recounts a decade of state-sanctioned racial violence and terrorism that occurred largely on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1900s.
The decade was marked by numerous executions, lynchings and other killings of innocent people. Some people were robbed of their land, and families were driven from their homes. There were deadly raids on communities, as well as illegal detentions.
The exhibit relies on state-held documents, photos and even a graphic postcard to tell and support the story of the violence, which was committed largely by the Texas Rangers — a state police force — and local law enforcement.
The bilingual exhibit, titled “Life and Death on the Border, 1910-20,” by the Refusing to Forget project, recounts a decade of state-sanctioned racial violence and terrorism that occurred largely on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1900s.
The decade was marked by numerous executions, lynchings and other killings of innocent people. Some people were robbed of their land, and families were driven from their homes. There were deadly raids on communities, as well as illegal detentions.
The exhibit relies on state-held documents, photos and even a graphic postcard to tell and support the story of the violence, which was committed largely by the Texas Rangers — a state police force — and local law enforcement.
Grant helps spread forgotten history of racial violence against Mexican Americans
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Racism
American History
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State of Texas
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..."The decade was marked by numerous executions, lynchings and other killings of innocent people. Some people were robbed of their land, and families were driven from their homes. There were deadly raids on communities, as well as illegal detentions.
The exhibit relies on state-held documents, photos and even a graphic postcard to tell and support the story of the violence, which was committed largely by the Texas Rangers — a state police force — and local law enforcement.
With the grant of $74,000 from the American History Association, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the organizers hope to take the exhibit to cities across Texas next year, coinciding with the bicentennial of the Texas Rangers.
“This is part of our effort to make accessible a much more accurate history of the Ranger force and its role in inflicting violence in a population that was often labeled as potential revolutionary bandits, because this coincides with the Texas Revolution,” said a co-founder of the project, Sonia Hernández, an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University.
The exhibit was originally displayed from January to April 2016 at the Bullock Texas History Museum in Austin.
Its showing eight years ago marked the first acknowledgment of the violence by a state institution, said Monica Muñoz Martinez, a project co-founder and the author of “The Injustice Never Leaves You,” which delves into the racial violence.
More than 40,000 people from Texas and across the country traveled to the museum to see the exhibit."...
..."The decade was marked by numerous executions, lynchings and other killings of innocent people. Some people were robbed of their land, and families were driven from their homes. There were deadly raids on communities, as well as illegal detentions.
The exhibit relies on state-held documents, photos and even a graphic postcard to tell and support the story of the violence, which was committed largely by the Texas Rangers — a state police force — and local law enforcement.
With the grant of $74,000 from the American History Association, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the organizers hope to take the exhibit to cities across Texas next year, coinciding with the bicentennial of the Texas Rangers.
“This is part of our effort to make accessible a much more accurate history of the Ranger force and its role in inflicting violence in a population that was often labeled as potential revolutionary bandits, because this coincides with the Texas Revolution,” said a co-founder of the project, Sonia Hernández, an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University.
The exhibit was originally displayed from January to April 2016 at the Bullock Texas History Museum in Austin.
Its showing eight years ago marked the first acknowledgment of the violence by a state institution, said Monica Muñoz Martinez, a project co-founder and the author of “The Injustice Never Leaves You,” which delves into the racial violence.
More than 40,000 people from Texas and across the country traveled to the museum to see the exhibit."...
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