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Protestor outside the Texas Capitol, holding a sign that reads "Black Lives Matter", demonstrating against police brutality in response to the deaths of George Floyd and Mark Ramos.

Photograph of two protestors at a demonstration to end police brutality during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Protestors outside of Austin Police Department headquarters demonstrating against police brutality in response to the deaths of George Floyd and Mark Ramos.

Photograph of protestors at a demonstration to end police brutality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Protestors walking near I-35.

Protestor outside the Texas Capitol, holding a sign, demonstrating against police brutality in response to the deaths of George Floyd and Mark Ramos.

Protestors demonstrating against police brutality in response to the deaths of George Floyd and Mark Ramos.

Protestor outside the Texas Capitol, fist bumps an armed guard, at a demonstration against police brutality in response to the deaths of George Floyd and Mark Ramos.

Protestors outside Austin Police headquarters, demonstrating against police brutality in response to the deaths of George Floyd and Mark Ramos.

Protestor talking to an armed guard at the Texas Capitol during a protest against police brutality in response to the deaths of George Floyd and Mark Ramos.

Protest outside the Texas Capitol, a car has a sign posted on the window that reads "Si a la comunidad no a la policia", demonstrating against police brutality in response to the deaths of George Floyd and Mark Ramos.

Photograph taken at the One Resistance Rally and Protest March. Event listing "Several local environmental organizations have signed on as participating organizations in the One Resistance protest on Inauguration Day. Details about the march are below: America faces a crisis. Donald Trump’s presidency threatens millions. We must rally, protest, organize, and support one another. We must resist. As a first step, on Inauguration Day, our coalition will gather to denounce Donald Trump’s politics of fear and hate, and issue a call to action to fight for the rights of every person. We’ll rally for civil rights, immigrants’ rights, reproductive rights, our environment, good jobs, and justice and safety in all of our communities. One Resistance protestors will meet at 5 PM on Friday, Jan. 20 at Auditorium Shores, 900 West Riverside Drive. We’ll march together up Congress Avenue towards the State Capitol and then back to Auditorium Shores for a rally starting at around 6:30 PM. All are invited to this safe, family-friendly community event. Protestors are strongly encouraged to use public transportation to reach Auditorium Shores. Paid parking will be available in the Palmer Events Center garage (900 Barton Springs Road) and the One Texas Center garage (505 Barton Springs Road). To RSVP, volunteer, or learn more about our growing coalition, please visitOneResistance.com. Please consider donating to support the One Resistance rally athttps://goo.gl/2TpDU2. This is a non-partisan event and donations are tax-deductible."

A group of people walking down the street with signs and a flag, protesting the speed boat races in their neighborhood, circa 1970s. One sign reads "Barrio Si, Barcos No."

View of protestors in front of the mural "Los Elementos" by Raul Valdez painted outside of Juarez Lincoln University at 55 North IH-35, 1977. In 1981 Juarez-Lincoln University could no longer afford to keep its programs running, and the owners sold the site to a Canadian-based company that immediately proposed renovating the building and tearing down Valdez's mural. The announcement came as a shock to area citizens and prompted loud objection from the neighborhood. Protesters demanded that "their" mural be left alone. Still others submitted alternative renovation designs that would allow for the preservation of Los Elementos. In the end, however, neither side could reach an agreement and after heated public debates and a two-year struggle to save the work of art that eventually saw the entire cityrally around Valdez and his mural, Los Elementos was demolished amid the cries and protests of the onlookers.

Brochure for the March on Austin for Lesbian/Gay Equal Rights on March 17, 1991

Front of brochure for the 1989 March on Austin for Lesbian/Gay Equal Rights

Student holding protest sign regarding the food at the UT Student Union

Before the impeachment of Governor Ferguson, Texas students paraded from the campus to the Capitol and held a protest rally, complete with the university band, right outside Ferguson’s office while he met with the regents. Ferguson was so enraged by the demonstrators that he got into a yelling match with one of the student protestors and had to be restrained from climbing out of his window to fight them, according to The Impeachment of Jim Ferguson, a 1983 book by Bruce Rutherford. Ferguson was convinced that Vinson was behind the protest. He decided that the university president must resign, and when Vinson refused, Ferguson vetoed the university’s entire budget. Ferguson then went on a tour of Texas, voicing his disdain for the university and what he called the “university crowd” in public speeches. He vilified everything from fraternities to the faculty to the student body. In his eyes, the university was made up of “corruptionists,” “draft dodgers,” “two-bit thieves” and “butterfly chasers,” according to a historical account compiled by what is now the Texas Exes. The account said Ferguson accused the student protesters of committing treason against him. Soon after, the alumni group began taking out ads in newspapers calling for the governor’s impeachment. In the wake of the controversy, issues from Ferguson’s past campaign for governor in 1916 came back into the spotlight. He had been accused of misappropriating funds, but investigations failed to find anything that would warrant impeachment, and the probe seemed to be closed. But in the midst of this personal war he had sparked with the flagship university in Austin, Ferguson appeared before a Travis County grand jury and was indicted on nine charges. Seven related to misapplication of public funds, one to embezzlement and one to the diversion of a special fund. He posted bond and wasted no time in announcing his candidacy for a third term as governor. House Speaker Franklin Fuller called a special session to consider charges of impeachment against the governor. The legality of the speaker calling a session was questionable — the Texas Constitution says only the governor can call a special session — but the point became moot when Ferguson called his own special session to discuss the budget for the University of Texas. Instead, the House immediately turned its attention to 21 articles of impeachment. The Senate, acting as a court of impeachment, spent three weeks considering the charges and convicted the governor of 10 of them. Five concerned the misapplication of public funds, three related to his quarrel with the university, one declared that he had failed properly to respect and enforce the banking laws of the state, and one charged that he had received $156,500 ($2.9 million in today’s dollars) from a source he refused to reveal. The Senate removed Ferguson from office by a vote of 25-3. The vote made him ineligible to hold any office of honor, trust or profit in the state of Texas.