Before LULAC, there was Order Sons of America in San Antonio

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Webinar astatine 7 p.m. Tuesday volition delve into its history

SAN ANTONIO – No longer determination successful the 1500 artifact of South Flores was a barber store wherever 100 years agone Tuesday, the Order Sons of America began successful San Antonio.

The Mexican American Civil Rights Institute, a nationalist enactment based successful San Antonio, volition delve into its past during a webinar astatine 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Cynthia Orozco, Ph.D, prof of past and humanities astatine Eastern New Mexico University, volition sermon however Order Sons of America led to the instauration of the League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation’s oldest and largest Hispanic civilian rights organization.

Orozco said LULAC was formed successful 1929, aft OSA was successful 1921, by World War I veterans, tiny concern owners and others, successful effect to the rampant radical violence, segregation, mediocre housing, and injustice experienced by Mexican-Americans and Mexican immigrants.

Before LULAC, Orozco said, “The precise archetypal large and important precursor enactment was the Order Sons of America.”

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