[AGL] Fw: commie grampa

[Frances Morey]

Very interesting, Fontaine. Here is another snippet of race relations history in San Antonio. I found this one on FaceBook. "...I sent out a petition on FaceBook to block the City of Selma from erecting a monument to the KKK. I got this reply from Patricia Minter Bland." I would love to know if any of this is on the record.
Best,
Frances

	* Selma City Council: No More Monuments to KKK Hate! - Sign the Petition!
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	* Patricia Minter Bland The reason they hid in Selma is my great grandfather put a heafty cash bounty for the heads of any kkk member who showed his face in san antonio in the 20'sand 30's. Go great grandfather!!!
September 11 at 10:45am · Like
	* Frances Morey This is a wonderful story!




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> From: Fontaine Maverick <fontainem at att.net>

>To: G 2 <ghetto2 at two.pairlist.net> 

>Cc: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net> 

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>Friend Ted sent me this-there are a bunch of pix frm the riots.

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>http://digital.utsa.edu/cdm/search/collection/p9020coll2/searchterm/%27%27San!auditorium%20riot%20%28san%20antonio,%20tex%29!%5B1939%20august%2017/mode/all/page/1

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>Firemen hose mob outside of Municipal Auditorium during a riot, of August 25, 1939.

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>Today the streets around San Antonio's Municipal Auditorium are 

peaceful, but on August 25, 1939 , they were the scene of frightening 
violence. An angry mob of 8,000 people 
defied appeals to reason, police lines, tear gas and fire hoses to storm
 the Auditorium and break up a meeting of 100 communists. Smashing 
windows, tearing up seats and hurling rocks, they reserved their 
greatest anger for Mayor Maury Maverick , Sr., who had permitted the 
meeting under the constitutionally guaranteed right of assembly. When 
the crowd went home, when the debris had been cleared and reason 
returned to these streets, San Antonians reflected on that long, dark 
night. How could such a thing happen here? 

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