Reposted from @truth_is7 - From 1848 to 1928, mobs murdered thousands of Mexicans, though surviving records clearly document only about 547 cases. These lynchings occurred not only in the southwestern states of Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas, but also in states far from the border, like Nebraska and Wyoming. Some of these cases did appear in press accounts, when reporters depicted them as violent public spectacles, as they did with many lynchings of Black people in the South. For example, on July 5, 1851, a mob of 2,000 in Downieville, Calif., watched the legal hanging of a Mexican woman named Juana Loaiza, who had been accused of having murdered a white man. These acts of violence were not isolated to the gold rush period. More than a half-century later, on Nov. 3, 1910, a mob snatched a 20-year-old Mexican laborer, Antonio Rodríguez, from a jail in Rock Springs, Tex. The authorities had arrested him on charges that he had killed a rancher’s wife. Mob leaders bound him to a mesquite tree, doused him with kerosene and burned him alive. The El Paso Herald reported that thousands turned out to witness the event; and no one was ever arrested. On Jan. 28, 1918, a band of Texas Rangers and ranchers arrived in the village of Porvenir in Presidio County, Tex. Mexican outlaws had recently attacked a nearby ranch, and the posse presumed that the locals were acting as spies and informants for Mexican raiders on the other side of the border. The group rounded up nearly two dozen men, searched their houses, and marched 15 of them to a rock bluff near the village and executed them. The Porvenir massacre, as it has become known, was the climactic event in what Mexican-Americans remember as the Hora de Sangre (Hour of Blood). It led, the following year, to an investigation by the Texas Legislature and reform of the Rangers. #EducateUrself #LatinoLynchings #YouGoneGetDisWork #HarshRealities #YCSD #Solois7 #Truthis7 #Truthis777 - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/BuCNtLmlzK0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=h9dtlcbt3kms
