LULAC

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    Immigration

    Over 500,000 Mexicans immigrated to the United States between 1921 and 1929

  • Merging

    Ben Garza, Jr. contacted smaller organizations and held meetings to possibly merge all these organizations into one in 1926

  • Founded

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    LULAC's goals

    From 1945 to 1965, one of LULAC’s goals was fighting communism through community literacy programs, working to eliminate poverty, organizing citizenship classes, curbing juvenile delinquency, helping to eliminate school dropouts, creating equal employment opportunities, and encouraging all programs to educate their people.

  • Segregation of Mexican-Americans

    In January 1948, LULAC filed a desegregation suit clarifying the constitutional issues involved in the segregation of Mexican Americans

  • Cases

    LULAC members Alonso Perales, Louis Wilmot, and Joe Garza filed a report and the case landed in federal court seven years later in 1955; it was known as Villarreal et. Al v. Mathis Independent School District.