Jim Crow

The San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum, or SAAACAM, has one of the only Green Book Bus Tours in the nation. "The Negro Motorist Greenbook" was created by Victor H. Green in the 1930s to provide safe spaces for Black travelers to visit when segregation and violence against Black people was rampant nationwide. That specific book featured over 80 locations in San Antonio.

In October 1964, as the South simmered under the tensions following the signing of the Civil Rights Act three months earlier, First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, began a whistle-stop tour of the South. She shattered the expectations of a presidential spouse with speeches, diplomacy, and palpable compassion as she encouraged the South to leave Jim Crow behind.

Richard Coke, the 15th governor of Texas, is a pivotal and controversial figure in post-Civil War Texas. Rosser Newton has written a book about his ancestor called “Richard Coke: Texan.”

The three Black musicians risked their lives every time they traveled for a performance. Critics of their music were often racist and unhelpful. So how did they become so successful during such a troubling time for Black Americans?

Texas Matters looks at another break down of order at the House Elections Committee by Chairman Briscoe Cain. Also we hear from a Texas mother opposed to anti-transgender bills in the legislature.

We continue our extended special coverage on the sweeping election code overhaul in the Texas legislature which experts have determined will make voting more difficult and weaken democracy in Texas and the nation.

The film “Hidden Figures” tells the true story of Katherine G. Johnson , an African American mathematician who helped calculate the trajectories for…