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Long before integration, black Texans watched Mexicans get up and go to the white public schools that they could not go to, and this is one of the great ironies of segregation.

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In the Johnson administration, after the Civil Rights Act passed, many new social programs were created help black people, and this created tremendous resentment/contempt towards them.

The Press-Courier Oct 9, 1965 reported this story.
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In the Johnson administration, after the Civil Rights Act passed, many new social programs were created help black people, and this created tremendous resentment/contempt towards them.

 The Press-Courier Oct 9, 1965 reported this story. 
books.google.com/books?id=7zhSA…
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Attorney L. Clifford Davis was interviewed for the 'Black and Brown Oral History Project' and candidly explains that there was no coalition between Mexicans and Blacks in the civil rights era. Mexicans did not become minorities until AFTER civil rights was over.

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Mexicans watched the success of the Negro civil rights movement in the early 60s and saw it as an opportunity to achieve their goals for 'political and economic advancement'. They were out to prove that their plight was WORSE than Negros.

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Mexicans watched the success of the Negro civil rights movement in the early 60s and saw it as an opportunity to achieve their goals for 'political and economic advancement'. They were out to prove that their plight was WORSE than Negros. 

books.google.com/books?id=MjA_A…
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