Latino American Series at ASU Concludes April 12

Dr. Mark A. Weitz, and Austin-based attorney and independent scholar, will give the final presentation of the Angelo State University’s “Latino Americans: 500 Years of History” series. It will begin at 7:00 p.m. in the Sugg Community Room in the Stephens Central Library, 33 W. Beauregard Ave., on April 12^th. This Presentation will be free and open to the public.

Weitz, who holds a Juris Doctor from the Baylor University Law School and a doctorate from Arizona State University, will present “In War Laws Are Silent: The Sleepy Lagoon Murder Trial of 1942.” He is the author of “The Sleepy Lagoon Murder Case: Race Discrimination and Mexican-American Right,” published in 2010 and available on Amazon. The book details the trail of 24 young Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles, the largest mass murder trial in American history. Widely published in American legal/constitutional history and military history, Weitz has held teaching positions at several universities.

The year-long series, “Latino Americans: 500 Years of History,” presented by ASU’s Department of History and Porter Henderson Library, has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association. Dr. Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai of the history faculty and Kimberly Wirth, coordinator of information literacy/research librarian for the Porter Henderson Library, are the grant coordinators.

More information is available online at www.angelo.edu/latinoamericans, or by contacting the Department of History at 325-942-2324.