She wins the desegregation of every public institution of higher learning in the state of Texas. The story doesn't end there. Three years later, in that same town, Raymond Taez will be elected the first Mexican American mayor of a major American city. And then five years after that, his city council colleagues will pass the first ordinance to desegregate places of public accommodation anywhere in the former Confederacy. (09:26–09:33)
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Asserts that Raymond Taez was the first Mexican American mayor of a major U.S. city.
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