CSPAN Book Discussion On Texas Mexican Americans And Postwar Civil Rights June 22, 2024
Signs that said we dont surf mexicans or dogs, that was very prevalent throughout texas. My book focuses on postworld war ii events. It focuses on postworld war ii because that was a generation of men and women who were able to challenge some of those segregationist institutions we had in texas. After world war ii, the mexicanamerican men and women who went into the military got a new mindset. They had been wearing the military uniform all of a sudden a much greater numbers than before world war i. When they were wearing their uniforms in europe or in the pacific theater, they found that they ...