El Regidor (San Antonio, Tex.) 1888-????
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
562 issues from 1904 to 1915, published in San Antonio, Texas, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1888 Pablo Cruz founded El Regidor, a weekly Spanish-language newspaper, with Cruz serving as both publisher and editor. El Regidor reported on issues concerning Tejano people in San Antonio, writing first-person, eyewitness accounts of Texas politics. In his editorials, Cruz detailed the Mexican immigrant’s struggle to obtain United States citizenship. Cruz, himself a naturalized Mexican immigrant, used El Regidor as a platform to publicize his social and political goals for the Mexican immigrant community.
In 1893 El Regidor measured 13 inches by 20 inches, typically published four-page issues, and aligned itself with the agrarian populist People’s Party. The Party’s support of small landowners and opposition to centralization of power resonated with Cruz and his immigrant readers. However, following the Party’s attempts to limit the voting rights of Mexican immigrants in Texas, which culminated in the pivotal civil rights case In Re Ricardo Rodríguez (1897), Cruz abandoned the Populist movement. El Regidor remained independent until 1906 when it declared itself to be Republican. Its circulation grew from a modest 1,200 in 1896 to nearly 10,000 at the end of its run in 1915. The paper included national and international newswires, focusing on the politics of Mexico in particular. In its last decade, advertising for medicines and local merchants dominated the last page of ever issue.
Cruz used his paper to voice discontent with those who questioned and violated civil…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- San Antonio, Texas, United States
- Language
- Spanish
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress