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Letter for the press entitled "My Projects for the Immediate Future" by Alonso S. Perales dated Rio Grande City, Texas, June 29, 1927
Letter for the press entitled "My Projects for the Immediate Future" by Alonso S. Perales dated Rio Grande City, Texas, June 29, 1927
TitleLetter for the press entitled "My Projects for the Immediate Future" by Alonso S. Perales dated Rio Grande City, Texas, June 29, 1927
CreatorPerales, Alonso S., 1898-1960
DescriptionTypescript carbon copy, in Spanish, signed by Alonso S. Perales, dated Rio Grande City, Texas, June 29, 1927, titled "My Projects for the Immediate Future." Perales discussed practicing law and holding "pro-race" conferences that will begin to unite American citizens of Mexican origin.
TranslationData for the press: My projects for the immediate future. I intent to dedicate myself to exercising my profession in the lower valley of the Rio Grande and have my law offices established in McAllen and Rio Grande City by July 15 of the current year at the latest. I also intend to sustain some conferences pro-race in time not distant, at the same time take the preliminary steps for the formation, in the Valley first and then in other populations of Texas, of a strong entity of American citizens of Mexican origin whose exclusive objective would be sincerely labor in pro of the improvement of the intellectual, economic, social and political of the Mexican Americans in general. The success of said organization will essentially depend on the type of leaders that will lead them. Therefore, these leaders will have to reunite the following qualities: they must be honorable, active, brave and intelligent. They must be honorable so that they will not fool or exploit our unhappy race in Texas; they must be active so that our general progress will be fast; they must be brave so that they will not fear asking for justice when their rights as citizens in the united states of America have been violated; and they must be intelligent so that better govern our destinations as citizens and as a race. I have the firm conviction that our race counts in Texas with a great number of leaders that unite those qualities and the day is not far in which the organization of the Mexican Americans will be a fact; and, given that this organization will be founded over a solid base, their pro-race activities in Texas will be crowned for a complete success.
DateJune 29, 1927
LanguageSpanish
Genreletters (correspondence)
ConferenceIn Defense of My People: Alonso S. Perales and the Development of Mexican American Public Intellectuals
Subject (Name)Perales, Alonso S., 1898-1960
Subject.Topical (AAT)activists
Subject.Topical (LCSH)Mexican Americans
Subject (Geographic)Rio Grande City, Texas
Original CollectionAlonso S. Perales Papers, 1898-1991 http://archon.lib.uh.edu/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=436
RepositorySpecial Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Original Item LocationID 2010-002, Box 8, Folder 2
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