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On March 14, 1940, a train heading west along Highway 83 from Donna to Alamo struck a truck driver turning north from the highway onto Tower Road. The horrific crash killed twenty-nine of about forty-five farmworkers who were on the truck. A one-day investigation faulted the truck driver and led to meager court settlements for the devastated families. In the wake of these events, several of the victims' children and grandchildren became lawyers and some of the first Mexican American judges in South Texas. Juan Carmona and Taylor Seaver De La Fuente revisit the deadliest traffic accident in Texas history, while seeking to preserve the stories of Mexican and Mexican American farmworkers and their relatives whose backbreaking contributions continue to feed our country to this day.

Author Biography:

Juan P. Carmona is a member of the award-winning Refusing to Forget Project and the Hidalgo County Historical Commission; he is the author The Alton Bus Crash, cohost of the Mi Valle Mi Vida and producer (with his Mexican American History students) of The Alamo Train Crash of 1940 podcast. Taylor Seaver De La Fuente is a Rio Grande Valley native from a family of Mexican and Mexican American migrant farmworkers. Her current graduate research at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley focuses on the evolution of Mexican American studies and the civil rights contributions of Chicanx youth within the RGV.
Release date NZ
February 12th, 2024
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
128
Dimensions
150x228x10
ISBN-13
9781467155106
Product ID
38079882

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