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.

Rebecca Onion: America’s Lost History of Border Violence: Texas Rangers and civilian vigilantes killed thousands of Mexican-Americans in a campaign of terror. A century later, will the state finally acknowledge the bloodshed?

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.

CNN: Their ancestors were slain a century ago along the US-Mexico border. They say now is the time to retell the horror.

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.