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- La_Cruz_Blanca abstract "La Cruz Blanca (The White Cross) was a volunteer infirmary and relief service founded by Leonor Villegas de Magnón in 1913 during the Mexican Revolution that aided soldiers along both sides of the Texas-Mexican border. La Cruz Blanca consisted of a close-knit group of women and American doctors who helped the wounded during fighting. When Cruz Blanca was first founded, soldiers were treated by nurses and doctors in Magnón's home, which had already been a makeshift kindergarten classroom.There, in her home, Magnón and her small group of friends and other sympathetic townspeople treated soldiers regardless of their political stance or country. This caused controversy in the community of Laredo, due to the fact that villagers felt that the Mexicans should not receive the same treatment as Americans. Magnón was not to let Mexicans out of her infirmary, if these men left, they would be arrested immediately. Instead she helped smuggle these soldiers out in various ways, one included pronouncing them dead and carrying them out in coffins.Soon General Pablo González wrote Magnón to congratulate and thank her for her efforts with Cruz Blanca, and he was made honorary president of the cause. When Venustiano Carranza recognized the organization and asked Magnón for help in Mexico, Clemente Idar encouraged Magnón to make Cruz Blanca go international, saying, "You should reply (to Mexico's President Carranza) making it clear you are one of the new leaders of the Republic. (...) Request authorization from the First Chief to create brigades of La Cruz Blanca throughout the country. (...) Thereby you will have established in Mexico a charitable institution as a vivid testimony of your revolutionary work." With Magnón's decision to go international, brigades were set up along the Mexican border from, "Laredo to El Paso, Texas, then from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, to Mexico City."Magnón considered the preservation of Latino history important, and therefore had a "semi-official" photographer for Cruz Blanca, Esuebio Montoya. She made it understood that selling negatives or pictures was out of the question. In further strides to preserve the history of Cruz Blanca, Magnón wrote The Rebel, a third-person memoir and account of the activities of Cruz Blanca. Unfortunately her manuscript was not published in her lifetime due to many reasons, one of them including unconventional gender roles. It was not until 1994 when Arte Publico Press would pick up the manuscript from her granddaughter.".
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- La_Cruz_Blanca subject Category:Aftermath_of_war.
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- La_Cruz_Blanca subject Category:Mexican-American_history.
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- La_Cruz_Blanca comment "La Cruz Blanca (The White Cross) was a volunteer infirmary and relief service founded by Leonor Villegas de Magnón in 1913 during the Mexican Revolution that aided soldiers along both sides of the Texas-Mexican border. La Cruz Blanca consisted of a close-knit group of women and American doctors who helped the wounded during fighting.".
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