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@AP reporter in US Southwest, #immigration #latino #race #poverty #travel. #MFA @ColumbiaSOA @UHouston grad. Writing #JFK book #typewriter fan rcontreras@ap.org

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    1. Russell Contreras‏Verified account @RussContreras May 29

      Mexican flag with the BLM flag. Mexican Americans in Atlanta joining #GeorgeFloydProtestspic.twitter.com/7722IE39T3

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    2. Russell Contreras‏Verified account @RussContreras May 29

      For historical perspective, this isn’t the first time black and Latino activists have come together to protest police violence. Here’s Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers and Chicano leader Reies Tijerina and Oakland’s Brown Berets at Defremery Park in West Oakland in 1968pic.twitter.com/lMlTQPDBPa

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    3. Russell Contreras‏Verified account @RussContreras May 29

      And for one historic perspective on black and Latino civil rights struggles, checkout my high school/undergraduate classmate @HistoryBrian’s book “Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas” #GeorgeFloydpic.twitter.com/Bn82ZFEsyj

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    4. Russell Contreras‏Verified account @RussContreras May 29

      Chicano leader Reies Lopes Tijerina and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were planning a Poor People’s March with united black and Latino activists in DC before King’s assassination. The march was also to focus on police violence #GeorgeFloydpic.twitter.com/I5cdyrokRv

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    5. Russell Contreras‏Verified account @RussContreras May 29

      Also unknown to most: Mexican American scholar and civil rights advocate George I Sanchez once received a letter from NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall about a California desegregation case Sanchez worked on. Marshall wanted some ideas for a case in Kansas #GeorgeFloydpic.twitter.com/HUncQRx1Hj

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    6. Russell Contreras‏Verified account @RussContreras May 29

      And let’s not forget the Plan de San Diego in 1915 — an attempt create a “Liberating Army of Races and Peoples” for Mexican Americans, African Americans and Japanese Americans in Texas. Goal: create black republic in South, return Native lands http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=3&psid=3692 …pic.twitter.com/Bkfv81c2wT

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    7. Russell Contreras‏Verified account @RussContreras May 30

      And the first photo above in this tread was taken by @photobgray

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      Russell Contreras‏Verified account @RussContreras May 30

      Full disclosure: I come from a now 5th generation Mexican American family in Houston and it includes brothers and sisters from the diaspora. Our city was connected to the Underground Railroad to Mexico. Look out for my story in June #familia #primos #primaspic.twitter.com/eI2umTe8CD

      9:25 AM - 30 May 2020 from Rio Rancho, NM
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        2. Russell Contreras‏Verified account @RussContreras May 30
          Replying to @BigHomieQuant

          Read brother!

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        1. John Hamilton Farr‏ @jhfarr May 30
          Replying to @RussContreras

          Great photos.

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        1. Michael Rodriguez‏ @MRodu308 May 30
          Replying to @RussContreras

          Thanks for the perspectives.

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        1. 𝙺𝚎𝚖𝚒 𝙸𝚗𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚖  ✍🏾 💭‏ @KemiIngram May 30
          Replying to @RussContreras

          Wow. We have a lot of blaxicans in our family—in California and Texas. I look forward to reading your story.

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        1. Ivey McClelland  😷 😷 😷 😷 😷‏ @iveyjanette_207 May 30
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          Most of my mom and grandma's family left Alabama for Michigan during the Great Migration. Monroe and Ypsilanti. Many of them were so disillusioned with what they were experiencing both at home and abroad that they moved across the river to Windsor,Ontario. And later to Edmonton.

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