Unit 6, post 10: I didn't know Los Alamos was an unintentionally created secret town to build the atomic bomb. It wasn't even on maps until after World War II ended. #Hist2110

Unit 6, post 9: When students at UNM demanded action on racial discrimination, the student council leaders said the issue was "unimportant" and refused to act. The students didn't back down. They organized boycotts of local businesses that discriminated. It shows that students can make change happen when those in power won't. #Hist2110

Unit 6, post 8: The Navajo Code Talkers created an unbreakable code using their own language. Their service was kept secret for over 25 years because military officials thought the code might be needed again during the Cold War. But it also feels like the government didn't want to give Navajo people the credit they deserved. #Hist2110

Unit 6, post 7: What stood out most about the Japanese American internment was that the government tried to lie about what they were doing and didn't admit it was wrong until 1983, and even then they didn't really do anything to correct the harm. Real people who were born in this country (and even if they weren't born here) lost everything. #Hist2110

Unit 6, post 6: Reies López Tijerina built the Alianza on the backs of women who did most of the work but got no recognition. He celebrated the Spanish empire and ignored the violence done to Indian nations. And his views became increasingly anti-Semitic. He was an important figure, but making him the only hero of the land grant movement means ignoring other people who did the real work. #Hist2110

Unit 6, post 5: Federal officials claimed that overgrazing was destroying the land. So they killed hundreds of thousands of animals. This affected many people, especially Navajo women, because they were the primary herders and owners. The Navajos were so traumatized that they called this event "The Second Long Walk." #Hist2110

Unit 6, post 4: Before the 1929 stock market crash, the average rural family in New Mexico had only six acres to cultivate and made about $100 a year. Most families barely survived. To pay off their debts, men became migratory laborers, traveling across the Southwest to pick sugar beets, work on railroads, or labor in mines and ranches. #Hist2110

Unit 6, post 3: New Deal reformers wanted to "restore authenticity" to Navajo weaving. They forced weavers to stop using synthetic dyes and wool and go back to older methods. But Navajos switched to cheaper materials because they had to survive in a cash economy. The reformers didn't understand that. They were outsiders deciding what "real" Navajo culture should look like, not listening to what Navajos actually needed. #Hist2110

Unit 6, post 2: A 1922 law said that any woman who married a non-citizen before 1922 lost her U.S. citizenship. Men never lost their citizenship for marrying a non-citizen. In 1937, the WPA used that same law to deny benefits to women married to non-citizens. An Albuquerque Journal article sarcastically said the "only sensible thing" for a woman to do was to divorce her husband. #Hist2110

Unit 6, post 1: Procopio Carabajo crossed into the U.S. from Mexico in 1900 when he was nine years old. There was no Border Patrol then. He grew up in New Mexico, voted starting in 1912, married, and raised eight children who were all U.S. citizens. But in 1937, a new federal law cut him off from New Deal benefits because he wasn't a citizen. It's unfair that the government can pass a law that excludes people who moved here before the law was even made. #Hist2110