Forgotten Latino History

  Ginzburg, Ralph. 100 Years of Lynchings. United States, Black Classic Press, 1988.

    Although Latinos in Ybor were working-class and union-conscious, their dedication to interracial coalitions and civil rights was nominal...

On the morning of March 14, 1909 …a tall man with penetrating brown eyes and carefully groomed mustache, attired in the latest fashion…caug...

  By 1948 a nine-square-mile community of 25,000 blacks, Mexican Americans, and poor whites lived on a low flood plain in West Dallas... Des...

  LULAC leaders like [Paul] Andow clearly worried that too close an alliance with black civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and end...

  This ideology shaped the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), founded in 1929 in Corpus Christi, Texas. LULAC drew its member...

Morton was making history, shattering the color barrier in recording for the first time, More than a decade before Benny Goodman received cr...