Date Created:
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 from September 14 to 22, 1911, in Laredo, Texas, 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 U.S. Gulf Coast.
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Laredo, Texas