Iconoclastic activist Booker T. Bonner shows off a slip confirming his appointment with Governor John Connally in July of 1963. For more than two years after his one-man hunger strike landed him in the newspaper headlines, the sit-in at the capitol made Bonner the face of the state's civil rights movement. It would also place him at the centerpiece of the newly formed Democratic Coalition. With Bonner's determination to fight for civil rights and to establish his political rally among a twenty-student body of pickets, B.T. wanted nothing more than to set the University of Austin school body free from the hatred towards segregation. | Creator: Austin American-Statesman | Date: July 1963. | Source: Austin American-Statesman Photographic Morgue (AR.2014.039), Austin History Center, Austin Public Library, Texas, Image AS-63-41693-01a. Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era, Max Krochmal (2016).Download Original File
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Austin American-Statesman
Source
Austin American-Statesman Photographic Morgue (AR.2014.039), Austin History Center, Austin Public Library, Texas, Image AS-63-41693-01a. Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era, Max Krochmal (2016).
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July 1963.
"Booker T. Bonner's Agreement With Governor Connally" appears in: Booker T. Bonner
