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Mexican Segregation in South Texas
RDG.4320.001
Byanka Gonzalez
November 2022
What is Segregation?
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First topic
Racial segregation is the systematic separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. It is the practice of requiring separate housing, education and other services for people of color.
Segregation in TX
Racial attitudes that supported segregation of African Americans probably arrived in Texas during the 1820s in company with the "peculiar institution," slavery. Anglo-Americans began extending segregation to Mexican Americans after the Texas Revolution as a social custom. Mexicans formed a suspect class during and after the revolution, and that fact led to a general aversion of them. After the Civil War, segregation developed as a method of group control. For both minority groups, segregation existed in schools, churches, residential districts, and most public places. By the middle of the nineteenth century, institutionalized segregation flourished legally in places with a visible Black population and was extended informally to Mexicans. Most Texas towns and cities had a "Negro quarter" and a "Mexican quarter."
Timeline
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1865-After the Civil War, segregation developed as a method of group control. For both minority groups, segregation existed in schools, churches, residential districts, and most public places such as restaurants, theaters, and barber shops.
1948-Mexican Americans won their own protracted struggle in a series of favorable verdicts from Texas courts that weakened racial separation. Among these were Delgado v. Bastrop ISD (1948), which prohibited school boards from designating specific buildings in a school campus for Mexican children. In Hernández v. State of Texas (1954), the United States Supreme Court declared Mexican Americans to be a class to whom Jim Crow laws could not be applied.
1950- Sweatt v. Painter challenged segregation in public schools and laid the groundwork for integration in schools
1954- The U.S. Supreme Court banned racial segregation in public schools in Brown v. Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas. San Antonio was one of the first districts to comply.
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Implications
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It is important to teach students not only about the history of Black discrimation, but also Mexican discrimiation becasue most teachers skip over that part. It is especially important in Texas becasue of the huge hispanic poplutation. We need to make sure everyone is heard and seen so history does not repeat itself and we acknowlege the hardships and injustice of our country and states past.
Examples of Mexican Segregation in Texas Schools
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Blackwell School, Marfa TX-
The school was built in 1909 to teach Hispanic children seperatley from white students. Students were banned from speaking Spanish on campus, and teachers would paddle children for violating this and other rules. One teacher even made students write notes in English saying, “I will not speak Spanish,” and then buried those notes on school grounds in a mock funeral for the Spanish language. The school closed with the integration of Marfa’s district.
Driscoll School District, Corpus Christi TX-
Systematically categorized students into different levels of first grade based on their last names. Students with Spanish last names were placed into “Beginners” or “Low 1st,” while students with non-Spanish last names were placed into “High 1st.” Mexican student would need to repeat 1st grade three times
Preston Hollow Elementary, Dallas,TX-
In 2006, an elementary school principal segregated students by assigning English-speaking Latino children to classes and programs separate from white children and created classes and hallways that were divided based on ethnicity
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Mexican American students who were forced to repeat 1st grade three times
Sources
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/segregation
https://www.kut.org/texas/2022-10-05/hispanic-students-were-once-segregated-at-this-school-now-it-will-be-a-historic-site
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/05/1126059159/hispanic-students-segregated-school-historic-site
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/texas-school-discriminating-against-mexican-american-students/
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Dallas-principal-found-to-have-segregated-school-1903454.php
https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/blog/2021/08/30/how-texas-forced-students-to-repeat-first-grade-three-times/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/segregated-texas-school-mexican-americans-become-historic-site-rcna30169