Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: A brief history of the Hispanic community in Central Texas

AUSTIN, Texas — The history of Hispanic Latinos in Central Texas was carved in the soil of the farmlands outside Austin at the beginning of the 20t...

September 23, 2022
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AUSTIN, Texas — The history of Hispanic Latinos in Central Texas was carved in the soil of the farmlands outside Austin at the beginning of the 20th century. Most worked as farmhands, many taking the place of Black slaves who had been freed decades before. And even though the ties between Texas and Mexico had existed for centuries, Latinos in Texas were looked down upon and often subjected to violence at the hands of white Texans. According to historians William Carrigan and Clive Webb, from 1910 to 1919, 25,000 Hispanics in the U.

Bob Garcia-Buckalew