Post by pavel on Jan 18, 2016 16:26:37 GMT -6
South Texas College history instructor Trinidad O. Gonzales grew up hearing of violence perpetrated by Texas Rangers against those in the Rio GrandeValley, including in his own family.
“I am a descendant of one of the victims of the matanza ... which occurred from July to October of 1915,” Gonzales said. “The translation I’m using is ‘massacre.’ That was the word they used in the 1920s to describe these events.”
“Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920,” an exhibit exploring the turbulent time will open at the BullockTexasStateHistoryMuseum on Jan. 23 in Austin.
Gonzales joined John Morán González, of the University of Texas at Austin; Sonia Hernández of Texas A&M at College Station; Benjamin Johnson, of LoyolaUniversity in Chicago, and Monica Muñoz Martinez of BrownUniversity, to collaborate with the museum for the project. The colleagues, who run the website Refusing to Forget, originally set out to honor the border victims and “commemorat(e) the centennial of this period of state sanctioned anti-Mexican violence,” according to the website.
Read more: www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/valley/article_9f9776be-bd99-11e5-bbd7-f3ab12b6498a.html
“I am a descendant of one of the victims of the matanza ... which occurred from July to October of 1915,” Gonzales said. “The translation I’m using is ‘massacre.’ That was the word they used in the 1920s to describe these events.”
“Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920,” an exhibit exploring the turbulent time will open at the BullockTexasStateHistoryMuseum on Jan. 23 in Austin.
Gonzales joined John Morán González, of the University of Texas at Austin; Sonia Hernández of Texas A&M at College Station; Benjamin Johnson, of LoyolaUniversity in Chicago, and Monica Muñoz Martinez of BrownUniversity, to collaborate with the museum for the project. The colleagues, who run the website Refusing to Forget, originally set out to honor the border victims and “commemorat(e) the centennial of this period of state sanctioned anti-Mexican violence,” according to the website.
Read more: www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/valley/article_9f9776be-bd99-11e5-bbd7-f3ab12b6498a.html