historians to pick the strike as a victory, one in which the con chillers -- peacan shellers. i use this to show how there was an massive uprising in the city, in the african-american eastside as well as the mexican-americans. the alliances with a newly independent faction of activists organizing the naacp and the national legal conference. i have shown how this alliance put maury maverick senior into city, andyor of the also the coalition don't a permanent blow to the states white supremacist power structure. looking at a familiar moment through a multi-racial lens brings a new scope of activism. this multiracial perspective allows for new continuity to become clear. a decade after the strike, the leader of the african-american factions, pictured on the left, and activist undertaker on the east side. he carries these experiences of the strike for. in 1948, he formed a tactical alliance with the mexican-american attorney and both men were elected to serve on local school boards, representing the communities in unprecedented ways. soon after, the man in the and to begin organiz