Houston Chronicle front page for Dec. 15, 1968.
Houston Chronicle fileThe Texas Rangers were in the hot seat the second weekend of December 1968 during a landmark civil rights program on Latinos in the U.S.
Leaders with the state law enforcement agency disputed claims that the Texas Rangers discriminated against Latinos. Among the allegations were claims that the Rangers "used brutality and acted as strike breakers against Rio Grande Valley farm workers in the summers of 1966 and 1967.
The program was part of testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which focused on issues affecting the Hispanic community in the Southwest. The testimony was held at Our Lady of the Lake College in San Antonio .
In other news, Hong Kong flu arrived in Houston. By the time it, also known as the 1968 pandemic, abated, it had killed about 100,000 in the U.S.
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