Handbook of Texas www homepage, May 14, 2009 (Order of Sons of America; Orden Hijos de AmeĢrica; one of the first statewide Mexican-American civil-rights organizations in Texas, was founded by thirty-seven men on October 13, 1921, at the barbershop of Ramon H. Carvajal in San Antonio; in February 1929 the Corpus Christi chapter ended its association with the San Antonio council and joined the Latin American Citizens League of the Valley to found the League of United Latin American Citizens)