September 5th, 1966, Labor Day climax to the long farmworkers' Marcha included Black civil rights and white union activists that would unite their integrated demands for a $1.25 hourly minimum wage increase. B.T. Bonner’s delegation from East Texas joined members of the Austin NAACP at the capitol rally, as did the Texas AFL-CIO. All three groups-Blacks from East Texas, browns from South Texas, and white leaders of organized labor would unite under the $1.25 minimum hourly wage. As the march wound toward San Antonio and eventually to Austin, the civil rights struggle in East Texas would begin to bubble over time. | Creator: Austin American-Statesman | Date: September 5th, 1966. | Source: Austin American-Statesman Photographic Morgue (AR.2014.039), Austin History Center, Austin Public Library, Texas, Image AS-66-55186-A-16a. 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-66-55186-A-16a. Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era, Max Krochmal (2016).
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September 5th, 1966.
"Labor Day Climax To the Long Farmworkers' Marcha" appears in: Booker T. Bonner
