Image description: A 1915 postcard, ‘Dead Mexican bandits,’ shows three Texas Rangers on horseback, posed behind the bodies of four Tejanos killed, evidently at random, as retribution for a raid. Bullock Texas State History Museum. From Slate.
ORGANIZATIONS & WEBSITES
- 1918 Porvenir Massacre.
- Life and Death on the Border 1910–1920. (Museum exhibit.)
- Mapping Violence.
- Refusing to Forget.
BOOKS
William D. Carrigan & Clive Webb: Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928.
Ken Gonzales-Day: Lynching in the West: 1850–1935.
Benjamin Heber Johnson: Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans.
Monica Muñoz Martinez: The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas.
Doug J. Swanson: Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers.
Nicholas Villanueva Jr.:The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands.
ARTICLES
Douglas Brinkley: The True Story of the Texas Rangers.
William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb:
- When Americans Lynched Mexicans.
- The Lynching of Persons of Mexican Origin or Descent in the United States, 1848 to 1928.
Death Penalty Information Center: History of Lynchings of Mexican Americans Provides Context for Recent Challenges to U.S. Death Penalty.
George Diaz: A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands.
Monica Muñoz Martinez:
- How ‘The Highwaymen’ whitewashes Frank Hamer and the Texas Rangers: The film’s hero left a legacy of racist violence in Texas.
- The Secret History of Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas: In her groundbreaking new book, Monica Muñoz Martinez uncovers the legacy of a brutal past.
Diana Nguyen: Remembering The Porvenir Massacre More Than 100 Years Later.
Simon Romero: Lynch Mobs Killed Latinos Across the West. The Fight to Remember These Atrocities is Just Starting.
John Phillip Santos: The Secret History of the Texas Rangers.
VIDEOS & PODCASTS
William Carrigan: On the lynching of Mexicans.
Ken Gonzales-Day: Lynching in the West.
Monica Muñoz Martinez:
- “Erased from Public Memory”: The History of Anti-Latino Violence in the U.S.
- Mobs vs. Mexicans In Texas History.
NPR: ‘Cult Of Glory’ Reveals The Dark History Of The Texas Rangers.
Texas Public Radio: Fronteras: Massacre In A West Texas Border Town.