“The whole situation brought to light how racist San Antonio was,” said Henry Flores, a voting rights historian and former St. Mary’s University political science professor.
where Blacks and Latinos could live. It was no accident that San Antonio came to have a predominantly Latino West Side and a prominent Black population on the East Side.
The front page of the San Antonio News announces that a burned cross was found at Woodlawn pool after six Black youths swam there in June 1954.“It’s ironic ... and quite a coincidence,” said former U.S. Rep Charles González, the son of Henry B. González. “But you’ve got to remember that people outside of the Black community back then may not have viewed June 19 as a significant day in American history. That’s only a very recent trip.
Then on June 18, the six youngsters made their fateful trip to the Woodlawn pool. Newspaper accounts from the time do not name them.On June 19, Mayor Pro Tem R.L. Lester called a special meeting “for the good of the City,” according to the meeting summons. The first item considered that day, a resolution that all city-owned golf courses and tennis courts be open to all races, passed unanimously. Proponents argued that there would be “no racial mixing because of the nature of the games,” the Light reported.
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