Feb 04, 2016 - Sale 2404

Sale 2404 - Lot 250

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(TEXAS.) Letter from the Agrupación Protectora Mexicana, a pioneering Latino civil rights group. Typed Letter Signed by president Donaciano R. Dávila and secretary Emilio Flores with manuscript docketing note in unknown hand, addressed to the governor of Baja California, accompanied by a typed carbon response and a docketing sheet. 3 sheets total, 14 x 8 1/2 inches; moderate edge wear, folds. San Antonio, TX, 7 and 15 July 1911
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Often lost in the bitter history of American lynch mobs are the many Mexican-Americans lynched in the border states. Mexican-Americans also faced illegal seizures of their property. The Agrupación Protectora Mexicana was founded in San Antonio, TX in 1911 to address these and other injustices, working with the Mexican government for greater leverage. This letter tells of the 3 November 1910 lynching of Antonio Rodriguez in Rock Springs, TX and the more recent 20 June 1911 lynching of a boy named Antonio Gómez in Thorndale, TX--the incident which sparked the foundation of the group on 25 June. It also pleads for an end to cowardice, disunity, and apathy from their "nuestros primos" in Mexico to help end "los linchamientos."