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1919 Texas Rangers Investigation
SAR Founding Editor and Publisher William Pate offers this work-in-progress transcription illuminating the history of state violence along the U.S.-Mexico border. Transforming the long-buried 1919 Texas Ranger Investigation Committee Report — currently only available in facsimile PDF format from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission — into a flexible, annotated and better-sourced text-based edition for modern-day and future readers and scholars is essential to the preservation and wider education of the Texas and U.S. publics. The final edition will made available in print and free open access on the web.
Texas Legislature, Joint Committee of the House and Senate in the Investigation of the Texas State Ranger Force
Published: Jun 25, 2021
Making the 1919 Texas Rangers Investigation Committee Report widely available for the first time.
Published: Jul 21, 2021
Details on making the 1919 Texas Rangers Investigation Reports machine-readable.
Texas Legislature Committee Proceedings, 1919, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission copies of investigation report in PDF:
Refusing to Forget project
A Reader’s Guide to the “Proceedings of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House in the Investigation of the Texas State Ranger Force” (1919) by Richard Ribb, Ph.D. (August 2020)
Written Testimony of Monica Muñoz Martinez, Ph.D., Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University before Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Immigration and Citizenship Hearing on "Oversight of the Trump Administration’s Border Policies and the Relationship Between Anti-immigrant Rhetoric and Domestic Terrorism” held on Friday, September 6, 2019.
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