1. The Mexican government demanded that the U.S. treat Mexican Americans and Mexican resident nationals with dignity and respect as part of the “Good Neighbor Policy.” Discuss three specific cases in which the U.S. failed to uphold their end of the bargain.
The Good Neighbor Policy was violated due to the discrimination of Mexicans in U.S. soil. Mexicans were segregated in separate schools, they were forced to sit apart from Anglo Americans in theaters, service was refused in cafes and restaurants and entry was denied to public swimming pools, parks and other public spaces. One case is the refusal of service to Adolfo G. Dominguez, the Mexican consul in Houston by the owners of the Blue Moon Café near Houston. A second case is that of Jacob I. Rodriguez who was denied entry to the Terrell Wells swimming pool near San Antonio. Another case involves the students of the National University in Puebla near Mexico City who were angry at a news item that reported fourteen Mexican youths in Los Angeles who were denied admission to the main floor of a movie theater because they were “dirty Mexicans.”
2. What happened in the Sleeping Lagoon Case and the Zoot Suit Riots? How did Mexican citizens react to these events? …show more content…
Over six hundred youths were arrested, twenty-two were indicted, and seventeen were convicted, three of them of first-degree murder, even though there was no evidence of their guilt presented at the trial. Civil rights activists as well as federal officials warned that this incident is evidence to the Mexican government of anti-Mexican sentiment in the state. FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover sought to publicize the injustice of the trail and raise funds for an
The Good Neighbor Policy was violated due to the discrimination of Mexicans in U.S. soil. Mexicans were segregated in separate schools, they were forced to sit apart from Anglo Americans in theaters, service was refused in cafes and restaurants and entry was denied to public swimming pools, parks and other public spaces. One case is the refusal of service to Adolfo G. Dominguez, the Mexican consul in Houston by the owners of the Blue Moon Café near Houston. A second case is that of Jacob I. Rodriguez who was denied entry to the Terrell Wells swimming pool near San Antonio. Another case involves the students of the National University in Puebla near Mexico City who were angry at a news item that reported fourteen Mexican youths in Los Angeles who were denied admission to the main floor of a movie theater because they were “dirty Mexicans.”
2. What happened in the Sleeping Lagoon Case and the Zoot Suit Riots? How did Mexican citizens react to these events? …show more content…
Over six hundred youths were arrested, twenty-two were indicted, and seventeen were convicted, three of them of first-degree murder, even though there was no evidence of their guilt presented at the trial. Civil rights activists as well as federal officials warned that this incident is evidence to the Mexican government of anti-Mexican sentiment in the state. FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover sought to publicize the injustice of the trail and raise funds for an