In early February 1918, Special Rangers A.B. Hodges and Graham Myers detailed Thomas A. Johnson, a Black man who worked for a San Angelo dry goods store, on suspicion of stealing from a recent railroad shipment. Johnson insisted he had nothing do to with the missing items, but Hodges and Myers took him into custody […]
#OTD on February 4, 1919, the fifth day of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House in the Investigation of the Texas State Ranger Force (hereafter, “Canales Hearings”) took place in the Texas state capitol. On this day, evidence documenting some of the worse state violence, including the Porvenir Massacre, was introduced in
#OTD on February 5, 1919, the sixth day of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House in the Investigation of the Texas State Ranger Force (hereafter, “Canales Hearings”) took place in the Texas state capitol. On this day, more evidence documenting Ranger violence against both ethnic Mexicans and Anglos was introduced in testimony,
#OTD in 1971 Mexican-origin people in the border city of Pharr endured a police riot, commonly called the Pharr Riots, that resulted in the killing of Alfonso Loredo Flores. To halt the “riot” the city government called in the Texas Rangers, among other police agencies. Pharr had seen many instances of police violence, including in
#OTD on February 7, 1919, the seventh day of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House in the Investigation of the Texas State Ranger Force (hereafter, “Canales Hearings”) took place in the Texas state capitol. On this day, more evidence was introduced of Ranger violence against both Mexicans and Anglos, and its political
#OTD on February 8, 1919, the eighth day of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House in the Investigation of the Texas State Ranger Force (hereafter, “Canales Hearings”) took place in the Texas state capitol. The day’s testimony and discussion show the wide scope of Ranger violence and the ways in which
#OTD on February 10, 1919, the ninth day of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House in the Investigation of the Texas State Ranger Force (hereafter, “Canales Hearings”) took place in the Texas state capitol. The first matter taken up was a procedural issue, but one that had enduring consequences. The House voted
#OTD on February 11, 1919, the tenth day of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House in the Investigation of the Texas State Ranger Force (hereafter, “Canales Hearings”) took place in the Texas state capitol. The day’s hearings brought out little new information about specific incidents, but the discussion of 1915-18 border violence
#OTD on February 12, 1919, the eleventh day of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House in the Investigation of the Texas State Ranger Force (hereafter, “Canales Hearings”) took place in the Texas state capitol. The day saw no dramatic new developments, though repeated mentions of the packed hearing room and the large
#OTD on February 13, 1919, the final day of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House in the Investigation of the Texas State Ranger Force (hereafter, “Canales Hearings”) took place in the Railroad Commission Hearing Room on the 2nd floor of the state capitol. Todays’ thread summarizes both this day’s testimony, and
