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RACE RELATIONS IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

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For decades, Mexican Americans were shunted into separate schools from whites through junior high school. While Mexican Americans could legally attend high school with Anglos, strong social pressures minimized such mingling in small communities and neighborhood segregation accomplished the same end in larger cities. This situation contrasted with that of African Americans who experienced a more institutionalized form of educational segregation under the so-called separate but equal doctrine, a form of "Jim Crow" legislation. While Mexican Americans progressed toward educational equality somewhat more rapidly than did African Americans, pressures from each community for such equality aided the efforts of the other.

The Wider Environment of Racial Discrimination

Phenomena such as racial discrimination directed at African Americans and Mexican Americans in San Antonio from 1930 through 1970 seldom occur in isolation. Racial discrimination existed in the United States generally during this period and more specifically in Texas. The situation in San Antonio, therefore, was a part of the wider environments of racial discrimination.

Similarly, racial discrimination did not begin in the United States, Texas, or San Antonio in 1930. Rather, racial discrimination was a long-standing phenomenon. The people ù African Americans, Anglos, and Mexican Americans ù in the United States, Texas, and San Antonio from 1930 through 1970 represented continuums of philosophies of race relations that developed across earlier decades.

Development of Racial Attitudes in the United States

The justification for racism in the United States in the nineteenth century was frequently religious in character. Josia Strong, the general secretary of the powerful and Protestant Evangelical Alliance, expressed the prevailing view of the Anglo majority in the United States toward race in the late-nineteenth century. He stated that:

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