#OTD on February 1, 1919, the third day of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House in the Investigation of the Texas State Ranger Force (hereafter, “Canales Hearings”)

 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

#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”)

#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”)

#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

#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”)

#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”)

#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”)

 #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”)

#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”)

 #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”)

#OTD in 1896, Texas governor Charles Culberson sent Texas Rangers to El Paso to prevent the Peter Maher-Bob Fitzsimmons prizefight for violating the state’s anti-prizefighting legislation. Their failure to do