The Steps of City Hall by nomorewars
Overall, Texas did not experience the highly publicized civil unrest that occurred in the U.S. before & during the 1960?s. Even though there were elaborate campaigns of de facto segregation in place, hundreds of incidents of racially motivated violence, & the mass mobilization of the KKK in East Texas, hardly any attention was given to the plight of African-Americans in Texas. Even more astonishing, the racially stemmed hardships of Mexican-Americans received even less. Even though the problems in Texas were not highly televised like in other parts of the U.S. does not mean that Texas was immune to racism & the social change that transpired in the 1960?s. I think the reason why Texas did not receive any national attention was because there were two movements-one for the advancement of African-Americans & other for the advancement of Mexican-Americans. There were attempts to unify the two struggles, all of which failed. Furthermore, the fights were to change only the status quo in certain cities-like San Antonio-& failed to integrate with the much larger national movement. Here on the footsteps of San Antonio?s City Hall many demonstrations & protests against inequality, disparity, & blatant racism occurred. Perhaps the most notable was the Emma Tenayuca led rally against worker injustices which occurred some time in the 1930s.
On April 27, 1939, members of the WPA (Workers Progress Administration) staged a "sit-down" strike at City Hall, protesting the city's refusal to grant a permit to parade.
