Texas Town Legends. By Olga Muñoz Rodríquez. ISBN: 978-1-951088-02-6 $24.95 on sale for $19.95 for a limited time advanced copies. This book is published jointly by Floricanto and Berkeley Presses.
Hispanic Texan biography book , Latino Texan History book , Mejicano Texan American History book , Mejicano Texan American soldiers World War II History book, Mejicano Texan town Uvalde soldiers World War II History book , Hispanic Non-Fiction book, Latino Non-Fiction book,
This a historiographic narration the stories of the mejicano
tejano heroes of Uvalde, a small Texas town, before and after the World War
II, their contributions to the war effort, and the generations following them. Upon
their return from the front, the small-town soldiers and heroes armed now with
a new perspective returned as catalyst of change, ready to engage, and transform the social,
racial, and economic dynamics for mejicanos in Uvalde, Texas town they
left. The author examines and describes how life changed when the men who valiantly
heeded the call to arms came back home. The men fought the mighty German army
in Europe at the Battle of Salerno, for the control of the Rapido River, and
Mt. Rotondo in Italy. They became amply adept, when they returned home determined
to improve the social and economic conditions for mejicanos, although,
at first, the advancement was slow and incremental. They did set in motion a transformation that took
years to gain control of their town, and fight their local Ku Klux Klan, school
board, city hall, landowners, and the power structure that oppressed them before
the war. It is an American, a Texan, as well as a Latino mejicano history
of duty to country, flag, struggle, and liberation.
