Luis G. Hernández (right) when he was a teacher in Mexico and his wife Petra Mosqueda. Image courtesy of Mario Mejía.
We received this note from Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe in California with appreciation for our lesson on the 1930s deportation of Mexican Americans and a resource to share.
I was one of those elementary school children in California who grew up not knowing about the Mexican deportations of the 1930s — even though I grew up in the town of Colton where the deportation trains from Los Angeles stopped to pick up families in my community. My grandparents did not talk about this, even though they lived through it.
I deeply appreciate the Zinn Education Project lesson and article about the Mexican deportations in the 1930s, not least of which because I come from a family of Mexican American school teachers.
Several years ago I learned that a family member had written a corrido (narrative ballad) in Spanish about the Mexican repatriation that he witnessed in Colton.
I conducted archival newspaper research on the experiences of people living in Colton at the time (1929-1939) and have just now published an open-access article about this time period in my ethnically segregated community of Mexicans and Mexican Americans. I wanted to share it with you in case it might useful as a resource to your teachers as it is freely downloadable.
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