#OTD in 1993, Walker, Texas Ranger, starring Chuck Norris premiered on CBS. The show consisted of 9 seasons, with Chuck Norris as Sergeant Cordell Walker, a DFW-based Texas Ranger. The

#OTD in 1988, Lee Roy Young became the first African American man to be allowed to join the Texas Rangers. Young served in the U.S. Navy for four years during

#OTD in 1956, legendary civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall wrote to J. Edgar Hoover, head of the @FBI, complaining of Ranger intimidation of Black citizens who had sued Dallas over

Black-and-white photo of a white man kneeling beside a small white boy on a sidewalk. The boy holds a sign reading “‘All-white’ college.’”

#OTD in 1949, the first episode of The Lone Ranger premiered, starring Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels. In this romanticized version of the Wild West, and what it meant to

#OTD in 1937, Bob White, a Black farmworker, was found guilty of rape and sentenced to death based on a forced confession extracted with the help of Texas Rangers. Though

#OTD in 1918, Texas Rangers illegally held and tortured Jesus Villareal of Copita, TX on his way to his niece’s wedding near Roma. Villareal was traveling with his two nephews

#OTD in 1915 between eleven and fifteen Mexican men were killed by Texas Rangers just outside of Ebenoza, Hidalgo County, Texas. Rangers clashed with about 40 Tejano raiders near Ebenoza,

#OTD in 1915, Texas Rangers murdered Jesus Bazan and his son-in-law, Antonio Longoria, in cold blood. Raiders from Mexico had ridden onto their Hidalgo County ranch and stolen horses and