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Last program of 2025

Join us for Libros y Amigos this Friday!

Friday 12/19

Libros y Amigos Author Reading

Join us for a special holiday talk about YA novel Hearts of Fire and Snow and the state of Latino representation in children’s and young adult novels, featuring authors Guadalupe García McCall and David Bowles. 📚

Books will be available for purchase. There will be a book signing after the talk.

🗓️ Friday, December 19, 2025 | 6 PM – 8 PM

📍 Guadalupe Latino Bookstore | 1300 Guadalupe Street, San Antonio, TX 78207

🍇Holiday refreshments will be provided

🎁 This book will make a great holiday gift for young readers! Pick up a copy at the Guadalupe Latino Bookstore.

This program is presented in partnership with the Guadalupe Latino Bookstore – the only bookstore in San Antonio’s Westside!

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A message from a MACRI supporter

This giving season, we are sharing messages from MACRI supporters about why MACRI matters to them. Today, we share a message from Patton Dodd of the H.E. Butt Foundation.

If you would like to share a message, please email info@somosmacri.org.

What MACRI means to me

When most people in the United States think about the history of civil rights, they think about the struggle of Black Americans, especially in the Deep South. They think about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the freedom movements that emerged in the 1950s and 60s and legislation that came in their wake.

That story is of course vital and it looms large for good reason. But until I moved to San Antonio 10 years ago, I did not realize how much of a claim this region and Mexican American peoples had to the history of civil rights. I wasn’t aware of the ways Jim Crow was expressed here, nor of the principal figures in the struggle to obtain and protect and expand freedom in Latino/a communities. I was not aware of the ways that the history of Mexican American civil rights is still unfolding in our own time.

That’s why I’m so grateful for the work of the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute. Thanks to MACRI, I can see that the pantheon of civil rights heroes includes the likes of Jovita Idar and Alonso Perales and so many others. Thanks to MACRI, I see that San Antonio and this region are a source of so much nation-shaping action, no less than Birmingham and Atlanta. Thanks to MACRI, I’m aware of how much more there is to know and understand about the past that is still shaping our present. There is real power and possibility in this work, and I’m so glad MACRI is here to stay.

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