porvenir massacre

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  11/21/2022
  

  New Evidence about Texas's Porvenir Massacre

  Texas Rangers orchestrated the killing of 15 unarmed Mexican men and boys in a Texas border town in 1918. Monica Muñoz Martinez describes this as part of a pattern of state-sanctioned racist violence in the state, which her organization Refusing to Forget is working to commemorate. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/27/2019
  

  'I Cry All the Time.' A Century After 15 Mexican Men and Boys Were Massacred in Texas, Their Descendants Want Recognition

  by Jasmine Aguilera

  A century after a massacre of Mexican men by white Texans, these families are speaking up and telling the world what happened.