had a very close working relationship with the longtime portd rican governor luis munoz marine who is the son of munoz rivera. that partnership ended in or produced the commonwealth change in the '50s which increased puerto rican autonomy. another individual here, henry gonzalez. gonzalez gets his start in local politics, housing issues in the san antonio area. he's involved with the pan american progressive association in texas. this launches his career in progressive politics. in 1956 he becomes the first mexican american elected to the texas senate. twice he filibustered measures in the texas senate that would have resegregated texas public schools. that earned him a lot of national attention. he had a great quote in "time" magazine we came across. it may be some that the chloroform their conscious, but if we fear long enough we hate, and if we hate long enough, we fight. he runs for governor in the late 1950s in texas and is trounced. he gets name recognition and becomes a viable candidate in 1961 in a san antonio district and he comes into the house. he serves in the house for nearly four decades. best

and one such individual, one of the more important ones in this era was luis munoz rivera.a senior statements -- statement by the time it became resident commissioner in the u.s. congress. he had been a negotiator with the spanish 1890s, and a political leader in puerto rico in the 1890s in early 19 hundreds. he was a renowned poet, newspaper editor. i mean, a man of high culture. and he comes to the u.s., and he is in this position where he, after having struggled for so long to kind of carve out a measure of puerto rican autonomy, in the waning spanish empire. he now had to face in sip it colonialism. he's a devoted and devoted national. but he also had a sense of pragmatism, he kind of understood in a basic way that puerto rico's chances for complete sovereignty, certainly in his lifetime were nil. and that he was going to focus on a system of promoting home rule and some measure of autonomy within the american empire. to that end, he's not to shape the provisions of a second jones act, which passed in 1917. the jones act, somewhat liberalized the colonial regime that ha