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The Ugly Face of Racism Mexicans’ relationship with other groups was rocky from the start. During the 1919 strike, Mexican and black workers were introduced under the cover of night into the steel plants to take the place of the white workers. Thus was born the stereotype of these people as scabs. White workers’ prejudice against Mexican and black laborers found in this experience a solid rationale. In the case of Mexicans, it would have to pass a generation before they were more or less accepted by the labor union movement. Racially speaking, Mexicans were wedged between the entrenched white-black

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Indiana

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CHRONOLOGY 1890s Thanks to railways, Mexican migrants start to participate in Indiana and other midwestern states’ labor market. 1911 Manuel Lara is the first Mexican to settle in Gary. 1919 The nationwide steel workers strike marks the start of large scale hiring of Mexican-origin laborers in the Calumet region. 1924 Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish is created in Gary. 1925 The first Mexican Catholic parish is established in East Chicago, Indiana. 1932 The massive repatriation of Mexicans reaches its peak. During the Great Depression about half the people of Mexican descent residing in Indiana chose to return, or were deported,

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