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By the Train Loads: Mexican Repatriation Movement in the Midwest, Part II

| September 6, 2022

“It was during these hard years of the early 1930s that mass groups of the parishioners departed in whole train loads for Mexico.” Silver Anniversary, Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, East Chicago, Indiana, 1927-1952 Part One of this blog series laid out how many individuals were repatriated to Mexico by 1932, how it was funded, […]

By the Train Loads: Mexican Repatriation Movement in the Midwest, Part I

| August 4, 2022

This is part one of a two-part series. Within the last few years scholars, and the like, have continued to reflect on the complicated history of the United States; the known and not-so-well known. One of those events is the Mexican Repatriation Movement of the 1930s. Publicly, much of this narrative is focused on western […]