![]() ![]() Zion First Baptist to which he was a member. Hackberry Street, diagonally across the street from Mt. Inman was a barber by profession, and had his community barber shop on S. John Inman, pictured over the First Mt Zion Baptist Church in the Baptist Settlement of San Antonio, was born in 1896 and was a fixture in the civil and human rights movement in San Antonio and across the city. ![]() Commerce, which was an area that at one time the center of black life on the East Side. Hattie Briscoe practiced law for 42 years, serving the black community until 1998 at 1416 E. Mary’s being 40 years old in 1956 and working to support her education. It was no easy matter for Hattie to graduate from St. Mary’s Law School, a Catholic institution, where she attended night classes while working in the day. Understanding the horrible nature of segregation, but yet never giving up, Hattie received a Master’s degree at then segregated Prairie View A & M College in 1951. Later she became an instructor of Cosmetology at the segregated Wheatley High School in San Antonio. ![]() Hattie was forced to attend schools that were racially segregated in Texas, but despite the generally inferior nature of segregated education she excelled. Wiley College would have helped to steel Hattie’s determination to break the chains of segregation.īy 1944, Hattie had become a cosmetology instructor, where she taught night classes at Hicks Beauty School. Wiley College students launched some of the first sit-in demonstrations in Texas against segregation and were the home of the Great Debaters. ![]() Mary’s University School of Law, and was the only Black woman attorney in Bexar County for the next 27 years.” She was the recipient of a scholarship to attend Wiley College where she earned a Bachelor’s Degree in 1937. Mesquite Streets as was presented to the community on May 1, 2018-Artist Rudy HerreraĪccording to documents at the UTSA Library, in the Special Collections Department of the John Peace Library, Hattie Elam Briscoe was the “First Black woman to graduate from St. The following write-ups describe the mural at the corner of E. ![]()
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