this story looks rather different through this multiracial lens. the photo on the right shows the states most recognizable militant leader in the black civil rights movement, greeting chicano farmers. he had just led a group of african-american youth on a march through east texas and was tying it to media mexican-american farmers when they arrived on labor day. on the left, another photograph. they all came together to demand this minimum wage increase as well as civil rights and labor rights. the third of this coalition i think helps us to rethink important questions around relationships. scholarships, ash fall into one of these two camp's. emphasizing cooperation. african-americans and mexican-americans were neither natural allies nor inveterate enemies. they were simply different. they had different leaders, they lived in different neighborhoods, practice different religions. sometimes spoke different religious, different cultural practices. all sorts of different lines of difference. they were so disparate, that just getting them together for a

i use the moshe racial -- the multiracial lens. particularly in the barrios, and also on the african american east. i see the political activity of the unions. the section of black activists, organized by the naacp. we talked about how this isiance vote learning math into office as the first elected mayor of the city. although the coalition was short-lived, adult permanent low to the premises of power. looking at this moment from the multiracial lens renders it different. by connecting it to politics and to the larger world, a new scope of activism becomes visible. this multiracial perspective also allows for new continuity. the leader of the cities it militant african-american faction pictured here on the left, tj sutton, and activist on the east side, he carries it these experience of the straightforward. in 1948, he formed a tactical alliance with the mexican-american attorney general. and both men were elected to serve on local school. they're both representing their communities in a president and ways. soon after, the manteno