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#OTD in 1916 José Morin and Victoriano Ponce disappeared while in the custody of Ranger Capt. JJ Sanders, pictured here in a photo from @txrangermuseum. The men were suspected of attacks against US citizens but neither had been tried or formally accused. /1 Black-and-white photograph ...
Newspapers reported the men were shot while trying to escape Ranger custody. While technically possible, ‘shot while escaping’ was a common Ranger excuse for executing prisoners, especially ethnic Mexicans, in cold blood. /2 Newspaper clipping from the...
Contemporaries recognized this excuse to murder captives, as this editorial in The Daily Bulletin of Brownwood, TX shows. But the author, presumably a white person, was more concerned with the (white) Rangers’ honor than the illegal murder of 2 Mexicans. /3 Newspaper clipping from The...
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The Birth of a Political Party: A largely Black Party - (Texas)

"In July 1867 twenty whites and 150 blacks attended a Republican convention in Houston, where they endorsed free common schools and free homesteads from public lands for blacks and whites."

Thus began a decades-long tradition of black Republicanism in the state. Despite widespread violence and intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan and Democrats, ...

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