jan 1, 1930 - Americanization
Description:
-20-30,000 Mexicans in the Near West Side area-Americanization programs would reach out to Mexicans to incorporate them
-Federal census classified had classified Mexicans as “foreign-born whites”
- Shortly after the U.S. census classified Mexicans as their own separate category apart from Blacks and Whites
-Not long after, they went back to calling them “foreign-born whites”
Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 1930
Now
~ 95 years ago