texas to -- sorry, wanted a paso to become more liberal, more more committed to civil rights, more prolabor. by the summer of 1963 this coalition came together and was upon the march. some 300 representatives of these various groups came together and laid out an ambitious agenda for civil rights. economic justice and real political power. they pledged to support liberal candidates, they made civil rights their top policy issue. they demanded complete and immediate immigration rather than voluntary or gradual forms. they coordinated a series of massive voter registration and get out the vote efforts that forever transformed state and urban politics. unprecedented numbers of mobilizations of african-americans and mexican-americans. they threw itself completely into the black and brown civil rights movement. the supported demonstrations, they participated. they even demanded that the governor of texas call a special session of the legislature to address civil rights. they got into it as well. i don't have time to go into detail about all of these activities and its eventual disintegration, but