Lynching of Elias Zarate (original) (raw)

Elias Villarael Zarate was a 22-year-old, Mexican immigrant who was Lynched in Weslaco, Hidalgo County, Texas by a white mob and his body discovered on November 11, 1922. The lynching of Zarate (also known as the Weslaco Affair) was the 15th lynching in Texas and according to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary it was the 56th of 61 lynchings during 1922 in the United States.