San Antonio-based Mexican American Civil Rights Institute lands $20,000 Wells Fargo grant
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The San Antonio-based Mexican-American civil rights institute has received a cash injection from banker Wells Fargo to expand its digital program.
The new $ 20,000 grant will help MACRI expand access to its online resources for teachers and host its first ever digital exhibition. The organization is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to chronicling and disseminating the history of Mexican-American civil rights.
“We all saw the power of digital connectivity during the pandemic and believe that digital content will continue to be of vital importance after the pandemic,” said Sarah Zenaida Gould, interim executive director of MACRI, in a press release. “With this grant, we can improve the use of digital media to connect today’s public with a vital past. Perhaps now more than ever, we need to know the full history of our nation in order to immerse ourselves in our present. ”
MACRI’s digital exhibition features Mexican-American civil rights activists and groups originating in San Antonio and South Texas. It will also show links between the city of Alamo and the national struggle for equal rights in education, employment, housing, voting and economic opportunity.
San Antonio has long been a center of Mexican-American civil rights activism, from Emma Tenayuca and her work organizing pecan peelers in the 1930s to Willie Velásquez’s later struggles to improve voter registration and education.
The grant is MACRI’s first from a corporate sponsor since its inception last year.
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