What the records say
- When
- Nov 1922
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 26.16° N, 97.99° W
- Description
- 1922 lynching in Weslaco, Texas, U.S
Placed at the town its description names, Weslaco.
Lynching of Elias Zarate
1922 lynching in Weslaco, Texas, U.S.
Elias Villarael Zarate was a 22-year-old, Mexican immigrant who was lynched in Weslaco, Hidalgo County, Texas by a white mob, his body then being discovered on November 11, 1922. The lynching of Zarate was the 15th lynching in Texas. According to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary it was the 56th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States.
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