Word: texan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Difficult as it is for a native Texan to admit anything unfavorable concerning his state, I am afraid that your article relative to the discrimination against Mexicans was a body blow. I blushed with shame after reading it because I knew too well how true it was. A majority of the people of this state feel that the only good Mexicans are dead...
Passionate protagonist of Texan bilingualism is Mexican-born, Texas-trained Edmundo E. Mireles, who runs Corpus Christi's grade-school Spanish education program. Linguist Mireles (he knows seven languages) spends his days teaching Spanish, his nights brushing up the high-school Spanish of other teachers who strive to keep one Spanish jump ahead of their pupils. Because Mireles says it is unnecessary to know much Spanish to teach a little, some pedagogues eye him askance. But he argues from results...
Thanks for reprinting Ernie Pyle's "Farewell to a Texan" (TIME, Jan. 17). . . I don't think any American could read it dry-eyed...
...million people of Mexican extraction in Texas. In much of the State they are forced to ride in Jim Crow cars, use Jim Crow toilets, go to separate "Spik" schools and restaurants. Even Mexican consuls have been treated as if they were unfit to associate with any white Texan...
Died. Lance Wade, 26, ace Wing Commander of the R.A.F.; in a behind-the-line crash; in Italy. The modest Texan had a score of 25 confirmed kills, one less than the U.S. record for World...