More than three thousand people were locked up in the South Texas camp, which closed 76 years ago today. Internees and descendants have joined forces with community members to honor their shared history.
NAACP head Derrick Johnson visited Austin to support preservation efforts at Lions Municipal, the first public links in Texas to desegregate.
Waco’s Dr Pepper Museum offers an insightful exhibit on the 1960s lunch counter protests that helped desegregate Texas.
José Angel Gutiérrez cofounded the Raza Unida Party, one of the most ambitious political forces to emerge from the Chicano Movement.
The first defendant to request a new trial because of Rhonda Barchak’s system had a hearing last week.
First published in 1987, ‘The Accommodation’ still resonates today.
Fifty-four years ago this week, the offensive lineman stood shoulder to shoulder with Jim Brown and Muhammad Ali at the historic Cleveland Summit.
The subject of our latest Texans You Should Know history profile started 182 NAACP chapters and welcomed kids and power brokers alike into her South Dallas home.
Dolly Li and Joey Yang started Plum Radio to talk about race, pop culture, and news from an Asian American perspective.
In 1967, a 56-year-old lawyer met a young inmate with a brilliant mind and horrifying stories about life inside. Their complicated alliance—and even more complicated romance—would shed light on a nationwide scandal, disrupt a system of abuse and virtual slavery across the state, and change incarceration in Texas forever.
My family and their hometown helped change LBJ’s views on equal rights. Did his later policies change the reality for those in South Texas?
He wasn’t diplomatic and he wasn’t subtle, but Curtis Graves forged a political path for black Texans—and altered history forever.
The legacy of the Voting Rights Act.
The Golden Globe-nominated film about the Civil Rights Movement is the subject of some unexpected controversy regarding its depiction of the relationship between Martin Luther King and President Lyndon Johnson.
The Reverend Charles Moore ardently dedicated his life to the service of God and his fellow man. But when he couldn’t shake the thought that he hadn’t done enough, he drove to a desolate parking lot in his hometown of Grand Saline for one final act of faith.
At his keynote speech at the Civil Rights Summit, the President honored LBJ's legacy on civil rights--but implied that he would try to advance it by other means.
A key member of LBJ's administration tells the inside story behind Johnson's decision not to run in 1968.
A civil rights summit in Austin celebrates the true legacy of the Johnson administration.
The illogical politics of immigration reform.
Will Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin help the U.S. Supreme Court decide affirmative action once and for all? Not likely, which is why it's time to let public universities make their own decision about which students to accept.
El Paso’s Chamber Music Festival, Hallettsville’s domino championship.
For Tom Cherry, the precise place where loyalty to his dad ends and a larger obligation to society begins lies deep in the woods of East Texas, at the intersection of history and conscience, where the truth about a church bombing during the struggle for civil rights in the South
LBJ, George Wallace, Selma: Eavesdropping on the making of history 35 years ago this month.
How a man named Eldrewey Stearns began the fight for civil rights in Houston.
Gary Bledsoe, the new head of the Texas NAACP, doesn’t dodge the tough questions.
Dallas is a city that has prided itself on having escaped the hostility of the civil rights years—until now.
When black militant Lee Otis Johnson got out of prison his old friends welcomed him with open arms. Later, some of them wished they hadn’t.
From poor black girl to presidential possibility, in ten not-so-easy lessons.
