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For classrooms and researchers

Educational resources

Use primary sources, descendant testimony, scholarship, and public-history materials to teach Porvenir within the broader history of Texas and the borderlands.

Start with the descendant-led lesson

Arlinda Valencia created a Porvenir Massacre unit lesson to help students understand the event, its historical setting, and the consequences for families. A refreshed downloadable classroom edition is planned for this site.

Primary sources

Texas State Library: the 1919 Ranger investigationOpen source ↗Portal to Texas History collectionsOpen source ↗Handbook of Texas reference entryOpen source ↗

Museums and scholarship

Bullock Texas State History MuseumOpen source ↗Refusing to Forget educational materialsOpen source ↗PBS VOCES documentaryOpen source ↗
Teaching with care

This history includes racial violence, family trauma, and the killing of children. Prepare students for difficult material, center the names and lives of the victims, and distinguish documented evidence from myth.