{"id":142,"date":"2020-06-18T10:35:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T15:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-somos-de-wichita.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=142"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:43:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:43:50","slug":"early-migration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/somos.wichita.edu\/en\/early-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"headline-5-142\">From Mexico to Kansas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the early decades of the twentieth century, groups of Mexican workers arrived in Kansas to work for the railroad. Some came directly from Mexico for economic opportunities or to escape the turmoil of the Mexican Revolution. Others came from neighboring states in the U.S. Initially, companies hired seasonal workers who were expected to return to Mexico. By the 1910s, however, these men and their families started to settle down, forming barrios near the railroad tracks. The first barrio in Wichita emerged near Kellogg among workers who had helped construct Union Station. Later, Mexican workers found jobs in Wichita\u2019s meatpacking plants at Broadway and 21st streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Mexico to Kansas In the early decades of the twentieth century, groups of Mexican workers arrived in Kansas to work for the railroad. Some came directly from Mexico for economic opportunities or to escape the turmoil of the Mexican Revolution. Others came from neighboring states in the U.S. Initially, companies hired seasonal workers who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":398,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-142","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somos.wichita.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somos.wichita.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somos.wichita.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somos.wichita.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somos.wichita.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/somos.wichita.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/somos.wichita.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somos.wichita.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somos.wichita.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}