the participants, and so the african-american delegates had to point this out at the meeting, and albert peÑa one of the chairs of the meeting, went out of his way to apologize for this incident. when out of his way to talk about the issues with voter suppression that the coalition should prioritize in towards do right by the african-american members. so that is one of many examples. a few years earlier in 1958, when hen henry gone sol les ran for gov, he had trim support million african-americans and mexican-american buzz in white liberal refused to get behind his campaign, even though they didn't have viable candidate some there was ongoing conflict and tension but the remarkable part of the story is that after each blowup or confrontation, they came together again. the day after an election they lost because they couldn't agree on a candidate, someone would send out a letter and say, let's get together again, and they would. they would figure out where to hold the meeting. that would point of contention, whose turn to meet on but they would figure out where to meet and then coming to and s

and albert pena was one of the chairs of this particular meeting went out of his way to apologize for this incident. and went out of his way to talk about the issues with voter suppression that they should prioritize in order to really do right by the african-american members. it's one of many examples. a few years earlier the mexican american with great following among african americans have been involved in filibustering and a whole slew of filibuster laws. pitchman to support. the liberals refuse to get behind his campaign even though they didn't have a viable candidate of his own. but the remarkable part of the story is that after each of these failures and blowups and these confrontations they came together again. the day after an election that they lost because they can agree on a candidate someone would send a letter and say let's get together again. they would figure out where to hold the meeting. that was a point of connection. eventually they figure out where their economy and they would come together and they would say okay let's analyze whether we went wrong. and how we ca

and albert pena, who was one of the chairs of this particular meeting, went out of his way to apologize for this incident. went out of his way to talk about the issues with voter suppression, that the coalition should prioritize in order to really do right by its african-american members. so that was one of many examples. a few years earlier, in 1958, when henry b. gonzalez ran for governor, a mexican american with great following among african-americans, he had actually been involved in filibustering a whole slough of pro-segregation laws in 1957. so he had tremendous support among african-americans and mexican americans. but the light liberals refused to get behind his campaign. even though they didn't have a viable candidate of their own. there was ongoing conflict and tension. but the remarkable part of the story is that after each of these failures and blowups, each of these confrontations, they came together again. the day after an election that they lost, because they couldn't agree on a candidate, someone would send out a letter and say, hey, let's all get together again. and th