Pascal Batista was a prominent San Antonio businessman and president of La Liga Pro-Defensa Escolar (The School Improvement League), a civic organisation dedicated to equal education for Mexican American children. The Benson Latine American at the University of Texas at Austin houses the papers of Pascal.
This collection is useful to scholars because of its primary source materials which document the struggle of Mexican Americans to obtain educational equality. Although the contents of this collection primarily relate to this struggle as it took place in San Antonio during the early and mid-twentieth century, the atmosphere portrayed therein is likely representative of social conditions in the Southwestern United States as a whole during this time period.