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MOVEMENT HISTORY
ORGANIZATIONS
JUSTICE ANIMATION
EVENTS

ABOUT
MOVEMENT HISTORY
ORGANIZATIONS
JUSTICE ANIMATION
EVENTS

1927 - Our Lady of Guadalupe Church Protest

1931 - Roy’s Taxi Serves Non-Whites

1933 - Carver Library Moves to East Side

1934 - Anti-Lynching Pledge

1934 - Newspaper Guild at the Austin Statesman

1938 - Ladies LULAC

1939 - Santa Rita Public Housing

1944 - Student Strike for Freedom

1945 - Victory Grill

1946 - 1946 Heman Marion Sweatt Applies to UT Law School

1951 - Desegregation of Lions Municipal Golf Course

1953 - NAACP Challenges Jim Crow

1954 - Black Soldiers Confront Austin Police

1958 - Night Hawk Restaurant Integrates

1960 - Anti-Segregation Stand-ins

1961 - Rev. Buck Opposes Segregation at St. Andrew’s School

1962 - Mother's Action Committee Fights Segregation

1965 - Roy's Lounge Anti- Discrimination Picket

1966 - United Farmworkers March to Austin

1966 - The Rag is Born

1966 - Gentle Thursday

1967 - Community Protests Murder of George Vizard

1968 - MAYO Chapter

1968 - Don Weedon Conoco Gas Station Sit-In

1968_economy_furniture_huelga

1968_welfare_rights_organization

1968_community_united_front_breakfast_program

1969_isamu_taniguchi_garden_

1969_chuck_wagon_riot

1969_waller_creek_tree_sit-in

1969_university_y_

1970_sds_march_against_the_vietnam_war

1970_les_amis_cafe_refuge_for_artists_and_protesters

1970_the_womens_cranky_

1972_ut_shuttle_bus_drivers_organize

1973_sara_weddington_argues_roe_v-_wade

1974_womens_rape_crisis_center_opens

1974_lucha_league_of_united_chicano_artists

1974_black_citizens_task_force

1974_march_of_a_thousand_mad_mexicans

1975_jurez-lincoln_university_

1975_bread_and_roses

1975_festival_flor_y_canto_ii

1975_fly_by_night_printing_collective

1976_wheatsville_food_coop

1977_texas_farm_workers_union_march

1977_red_river_womens_press

1978_east_austin_boat_race_controversy

1978_chile_solidarity

1978_revitalization_is_gentrification

1980_texas_state_employees_union

1981_resistencia_bookstore

1982_las_manitas_and_la_pea_

1982_protest_against_air_force_base

1982_fair_housing_victory

1982_protest_against_execution_of_charlie_brooks

1982_nuclear_freeze

1983_community_protests_destruction_of_mural

1983_protest_against_kkk

1983_blackland_cdc_fights_for_houses

1984_53_arrested_in_kissinger_protest

1985_allgo_-_queer_people_of_color

1985_austin_film_society

1986_liberty_bookstore

1986_anti-apartheid_occupation

1987_plan_to_tattoo_hiv-positive_inmates_defeated

1987_camila_organizes_veterans_convoy

1987_nokoa_newspaper

1988_marsha_gomez_opens_alma_de_mujer

1988_whole_foods_protest

1988_homer_the_homeless_goose

1989_act-up_demonstrations_

1990_save_our_springs

1991_art_from_the_streets

1993_moon_the_klan_counter_demonstration

1993_east_austin_tank_farm_shut_down

1994_koop_community_radio

1997_animal_trustees_of_austin

1997_students_protest_racist_study

1997_nonmilitary_options_for_youth

2000_rhizome_collective

2000_protest_against_the_fortune_500

2002_east_austin_stories

2002_monkeywrench_books

2003_anti_war_march_of_10000

2004_rhapsody_in_east_austin_

2006_immigrant_rights_march

2006_picket_against_accenture

2006_texas_freedom_network_

2006_military_recruitment_protest

2006_texas_jail_project

2007_million_musician_march

October 2, 1007Austin, TexasHolly Power Plant, in downtown East Austin, is slated for destruction.

2007_save_kenneth_foster_

2008_codepink_gives_sen-_cornyn_pink_slip

2008_workers_protest_wage_theft

2008_jennifer_gale_death_reveals_transgender_homelessness

2009-eco-change-exchange

2009-winter-soldier-testimony

2009-uts-first-statue-of-a-woman

2009-t-don-hutto-forced-to-stop-jailing-children

2009-opposition-to-the-wildflower-pud

2009_building_austin_building_injustice

2009-worker-cooperative-development-center

2010-grand-opening-of-5604-manor

2010-thirst-strike

2010-texas-history-textbook-fight

2010-free-political-prisoner-marilyn-buck

2010-save-texas-schools

2011-todd-willingham-executed-but-science-wins

2011_3-save-our-state-march-and-rally

2011-occupy-austin

2011-people-march-to-preserve-cesar-chavez-holiday

2011-dont-buy-war-at-the-barton-creek-mall

2012-community-saves-schools-from-idea-charter

2012_2-march-8-proclaimed-leslie-day

2012-victory-for-the-sweatshop-free-coalition

2013-taxi-drivers-organize

2013-justice-for-trayvon-demonstration

2013-getequal-protest

2013-domestic-partner-benefits-for-aisd

USA-ABORTION/TEXAS

2013-fast-food-workers-demand-15hour

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JUSTICE ANIMATION
EVENTS

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ANNE LEWIS organizer/filmmaker/director JEANNE STERN animator/painter SALMA MIRZA and XICA MEDIA web developers
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