Lynching & racial terror
The burning of Antonio Rodríguez
4 November 1910Rocksprings, TX
A mob took a twenty-year-old Mexican ranch hand from the Rocksprings jail and burned him at the stake before a crowd. The killing set off anti-American protests across Mexico weeks before the Revolution began.
- People killed
- 1
The marker sits at the centre of the place named, because the records do not fix a single spot.