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The 1917 Bath Riots occurred in January 1917 at the Santa Fe Street Bridge between El Paso, Texas, United States, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.The riots are known to have been started by Carmelita Torres [1] and lasted from January 28 to January 30 and were sparked by new immigration policies at the El Paso–Juárez Immigration and Naturalization Service office, requiring Mexicans ...
Carmelita Torres was a "red-haired Mexican woman" known for starting the 1917 Bath riots on the Mexico–United States border between Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and El Paso, Texas. [1] At the time of the riots, she was 17 years old and working as a maid in the United States. [2] [3] [4]
Zoot Suit Riots (ABC-CLIO 2014), Hispanics in Los Angeles in 1940s. Chicago Commission on Race Relations. The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot (1922) on Chicago race riot of 1919; Dobrin, Adam, ed. Statistical handbook on violence in America (Oryx, 1996) hundreds of tables and charts, focused on late 20th century.
The film also includes Sosa's mother, El Pasoan historian David Romo talking about the bath riots, and how insecticides were used on braceros before crossing into the United States, and former El ...
List of strikes in Mexico; 0–9. 1917 Bath riots; C. Cananea strike; M. Matamoros strike; O. 2006 Oaxaca protests; R. Real del Monte 1766 strike; Río Blanco strike
The riot, likely the deadliest in Mexico's history, happened in the old and crowded Topo Chico prison in Monterrey.
By Mark Stevenson MEXICO CITY (AP) - A confrontation between 1,500 police and residents of a village on Mexico City's western outskirts left more than 100 police injured in a battle over a water ...
1st New Mexico Volunteer Infantry, Reorganized; 1917 Bath riots; 1938 San Antonio pecan shellers strike; 1994 California Proposition 187; 2nd Regiment New Mexico Volunteer Infantry ; 2006 Harris County, Texas hate crime assault; 2019 El Paso shooting