1873: Tucson, Arizona:
Two Chicanos and an Indio are taken from jail and lynched by an Anglo mob while the sheriff turns his back. A coroner’s jury later defended the lynchings.
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On this day in Chicano History
1849: San Francisco
The Alta California reports repression against “foreign miners” (including the Chinese) is mounting in the “gold country” and Chicanos are being forced to the southern mines where there is little gold or water.
Excerpt: Richard Henry Morefield
California Historical Society Quarterly
Vol. 35, No. 1 (Mar., 1956), pp. 37-46
Published by: University of California Press in association with the California Historical Society
DOI: 10.2307/25155032
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25155032
Page Count: 10
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1973, Tucson, Arizona:
Two highly decorated Viet Nam veteran are arrested together, but treated differently. John Hall is given a suspended sentence, but Carlos Flores is charged with “resisting a Border Patrol Officer.”
1973, Tucson, AZ
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1973, Laredo, Texas:
60 year old hermit/Rancher Kenneth Adami – defiant in his arrest for killing five Chicanos by saying, Hey, I’ve just killed five wetbacks.” He was later sentenced to life imprisonment.
Rancher Who Slew 5 Draws Life Sentence (Santa Ana Register)
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Jul. 25, 1846, Matamoros, Mexico:
Ulysses S. Grant, later President of the United States -in a letter to his Lover, Julia Dent writes that U.S. occupation forces have murdered many Mexican civilians and “…seem to enjoy acts of violence…” against Mexicans.
Ulysess S. Grant, love letter from war.
On this day, in Chicano History (Jul.24)
1876: Santa Fe:
The New Mexican reports from Lincoln County that Jose Segura, an accused horse thief, was forcefully taken from a Sheriff’s Posse, shot and lynched by 17 masked men.
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1898: Jerome, Arizona:
The Jerome Mining News re-prints an article complaining that “people of Spanish and Mexican descent are not enlisting” in the war against Spain because of “the tie of language” is stronger than allegiance to the U.S.