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Another one of Xavier Martinez' paintings of the 1910s
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On of Xavier Martinez' first paintings. He is the most well known Mexican-American artist of the 1910s
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Maria Cristina Mena was one of the first Mexican-American woman writes and this is her first work
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The war in Mexico caused over 600,000 Mexican refugees to flee into the United States.
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Americans put on Picasso show and scholars have newfound respect for Mexican and Mexican American culture.
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Adina de Zavala convinces Governor Oscar Colquitt to preserve and restore the long barracks of the Alamo. She speculated the long barracks were a part of the Alamo while everyone else wrote them off as random buildings. Zavala was right.
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First Mexican American Hollywood actress 1913-1917, Her Husband’s Friend first work
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One of Maria Cristina Mena first short stories published in "The Century Magazine"
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Maria Cristina Mena writes another one of her short stories.
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Another one of Pablo Picasso's paintings that impacted American scholars to take Mexican-American culture seriously
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Myrtle Gonzalez' most famous and widely recognized film. Starred along side William Duncan
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Vicente J. Bernal writes on of his most famous poems
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Falsely charged with murder in Texas because he was Mexican. Tried three times and found guilty every time. He was given a life sentence and much of the public tried to lynch him. Texas governor Oscar Colquitt acquitted him of all charges.
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United States enters WWI in 1917 and begins fighting over seas in 1918. Many Mexican-Americans were either drafted or enlisted into the army
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Myrtle Gonzalez' last work before her death.
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Adina Emilia De Zavala writes these short stories. She was an advocate of preserving Texas and Mexican-American history
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Disease that affected much of the American population, Mexican-Americans were not excluded from this disaster.
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Marcelino Serna fought on the front-line trenches of France, where he earned numerous medals. However, despite killing 28 and capturing twenty-four German soldiers, he never received the Medal of Honor. An officer told Serna that he would not receive such an award because he was merely a private and that he could never advance to a higher level because of his limited English-language skills. Most decorated WWI soldier from Texas
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She was one of the many victims of the Flu Pandemic of 1918. She had a legendary silent film career
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Majority of factory works in the North were striking so many Mexican-Americans from the South venture north for the first time to take on better jobs.
