Piecing Together a Story of Courage: Civil Rights in San Antonio

Instituto Cultural de Mexico 600 Hemisfair Way, San Antonio

The Videos Start by screening “The Texas Sit-Ins, 1960” and “San Antonio, 1960: A Quiet Revolution.” Learn how young African Americans helped re-energize the national Civil Rights Movement by protesting racial discrimination at public lunch counters across the South. In San Antonio, Mary Lillian Andrews pushed the city to produce the first peaceful, voluntary lunch counter integration of the national sit-in movement. Mexican Americans also struggled to obtain equal treatment. “San Antonio: Cradle of Mexican American Civil Rights” provides an overview of San Antonio’s national prominence in addressing and promoting the rights of Mexican Americans in the face of widespread...