Meeting of the Mexicanist Congress

Jovita Idar, shown in this picture, and her family helped organize this event

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Place Created: Laredo, Texas

Year Created: 1911

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Description: El Primer Congreso Mexicanista, known in English as the First Mexicanist Congress, convened to address social, labor, educational, and economic inequalities facing Mexicans and Mexican Americans. It marked the emergence of a coordinated Mexican American civil rights movement on the Gulf Coast.

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Laredo, Texas