Him the pioneer of four clinics. It is part of his visionary nature before people were talking about organic food he became of vegetarian and composting is out of conviction and data of tactics but i think we are done. Just one more question. What is the chavez legacy . Not in the field but a generation of activists that have learned from him to take the knowledge to go elsewhere in those that were empowered by the union was a tremendous experience. And also for latinos around the country and that is important to. Thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] thank you for coming today we call this is a recession in the stories that shaped san antonio both authors are signing books immediately after the of session but that the second floor on the of laughter and the proceeds benefit the San Antonio Public Library foundation in. I am a columnist and i am honored to be here today with two authors who have books about san antonio and very different stories but i think they are stories about cultural outsiders in the city whod through hardworking and ingenuity excel in this community. To my left who have an author and her historian nick kotz his latest book talks about his grandfather emigrating ending up in san antonio and the book is the finalist award for nonfiction. To my right Ignacio Garcia from Brigham Young university the author of five books hall and that his latest tells the story about the Basketball Team that had Great Success in the 30s and 40s and he is of a graduate of that college. [applause] we have a lot of graduates here in and we are clad to have you. Nick cover your story is a grandfather coming from russia and their bosses daybed wave of immigration with the jews of Eastern Europe trying to escape the oppression they were facing a that time. What are the memories of your grandfather is and what inspired you . Reason of my grandfather is that my mother began to i just off of the homeless part. He took me 02 branch every sunday. My mom would drop us off that the theater every saturday morning. This is the point. I was a smart basket. [laughter] although kid. That got the lead grew letter grade aided Texas History in and telling started to research i knew more about cn houston and the Texas Revolution day and i knew about the revolution that he escaped into the Industrial Revolution taking place in san antonio. Why did i write to the book . Essentially to people got me going. One is a great to author and to think youre here as it turned pat the other person is sitting there as the best selling author but insisted i write the box covers 28 through 45 by graduated 69 . From what i understand you did not know much about this period. What made you aware and that you wanted to write a book a . I was reading my first book on politics of the Mexican American politics and civilrights crime was interviewing a former legislator and we were doing interviews so during the changing of tapes list and said where did you graduate . I said i am from there a and then we started to you talk about it before we got onto politics and he mentioned he was on the Basketball Team. , of course, 69 really not that good about basketball. The first few years i went there we were not good with many things for our individual yes but teams we struggled. When he mentioned he was on the team that went to the state playoffs in there was the team before then had the state title and the team afterwards i was really interested the above was a Sports Writer so that was interesting story but i into politics so i will leave that. But we always want to give back there is the sense of loyalty that is incredible. But then i begin do you know things that i had not imagined a there were so many similarities the principal back then was when i started school of the assistant principal was back then and when i started one of the players was my biology teachers why was destined to to write the book. [laughter] your grandfather set up. Did you read some of it . I actually did. [laughter] i enjoyed the book but to know that this is a city hall but before that it she spends the few years in chicago ended you could talk about what makes them decide to come to receive antonio . As weve mentioned before with the impression there were facing at that time what was said antonio compared to chicago at that time . In chicago this case started a oneman oneroom party stopped the best through the 30s to a of the children were born there he started the job at 21 a and lived on the Near West Side of chicago that every ethnicity from Eastern Europes central or western europe are packed and together these people. There was rampant disease including tuberculosis of which my grandmother was scared to death and he noticed something happening on the streets of chicago they were automobiles ian he said plates. Everything is changing. In his whole life was anticipating change. In deindexes the horse is still king. Floor late 193,020th centuries was the haven san antonio is supposed to have the of marvelous climate so those two factors. In the book you talk about how people came from russia and cart to chicago then found to the achievement thomas says bad if not in the course york branch of search did not too bad. What was the climate like what kind of treatment did he receive in san antonio . Garett there was problems. Thought of the prejudice against jews but anybody that spoke with the dachshund hispanics soared the gross or negros but they were cultural outsiders have the theme of my book is to look at how these cultural outsiders first the hispanics, french, germans hispanics, french, germans, the 22 distinct nationalities that created in the 20th century. Our great historian who died recently quickly i would like to read you of what it was said about san antonio. Although social interactions were limited san antonio was an easygoing city in which the groups tolerated each other with the of long will take cultural history that brought the groups one after another. They had their own the schools and clubs but here is the point. The demand of their growing town end they had to organize politics of the government out of disparate groups the story is that no group effort completely assimilated. Although the americanization process window and, there were all forced into a peculiar mutual tolerance this created a wonderful tolerant town theyve made not adopt each others wages but it influenced by them and said that along. Invite think that is the wonderful multicultural history of our city. The central figure of your book Ignacio Garcia is the coach of the Basketball Team also involved with football and was a greek athlete himself before he was the coach. I think many people will go something but king you convey to people who he was . Coach carson was born in the valley but moved san antonio to get a better education to participate in metropolitan study. He was the star athlete he played football although no bigger than 5foot 1 inch. [laughter] he played baseball may have done a Better Baseball player and coach but also a basketball. He was one other for young men offered to a scholarship to southwestern. The interesting thing is yeager up and a community that was segregated his family was anglo and he came choose antonio to found up period that would navigate he focused on what needed to be done. With the conflicts over the hostilities and if you beats them that takes care of everything. That takes care of the problem but he was is the product of the mexicanamerican in generation when there was the assimilation process. In college he had the College Experience was the star of the university team. And played semipro ball and those that would go in tuzla hall of fame. He went to mexico to play baseball. He was so good that the Mexican Company decided tarascan to coach the team and he did and won the national title. Then he gets hurt and goes to the hospital to meet this woman from louisiana and falls in love and decides he needs to come back home. There is on the one job available. There is only three highschool sanders for coaches. So delayed thing he knows about linear before is they played them. Of course, he heard everything you could imagine but he fell in love with the students and the school as a tremendous self starter commitment, hard work. Did he know what was going on around him . Yes. There were mexicanamericans to win well who could function and that the level of the rest of the divers community. But at a lower level where those of the green groups were struggling whether African American or german and of course, Mexican Americans were there the and the relationship was different among the skilled and unskilled because they ended up competing with each other. So rich were the most difficult to play. For those that follow basketball this is the note shot clock and it was not uncommon for teams if you had a close game you would hold onto the ball for the last several minutes you have low score games. [laughter] of the technical side he was in an innovator in terms of describing the of movement that he you wanted for his teams. Being so small going to the university that to play quick fact if you are not taller or a great shooter you have to be fast. He played a very fast brand of basketball thats at the time not all the players could cross the midcourt. Said he developed the quick game am part of that was basically because he was small he decided to play fast and he taught them to play very fast. The end of way he did have a couple of big guys the biggest mexicans anybody had seen. [laughter] 6. 2 inches although the smallest centers in the cities he taught them to run fast and practice was tortured because he made them run so fast. He never had great shooters but great scorers how to play under the basket. I got a call yesterday that their brother played on the team and he was the big guy as 64. [laughter] nick, what fascinates me is your grandfather. When he came to san antonio he had a shop that was successful, his ranch and created a story and a radio program. But i felt he was the pivotal figure in the family and we introduced as you describe how she was from russia and received a and invitation from the local in the United States and basically he asked her to marry him and she agreed. That was not uncommon at the time but she decided she did not like it and changed her mind so we get the sense this is a strongwilled person. Talk about her. Anna was less than 5foot tall and she had a absolutes will of steel. And she ran that family. Nathan was the visionary who saw a ball was coming next and did it but she ran the family. Iran rather as a little play two or three of us at her side it she would march down the street. Keep your head up. Keep your shirt tucked in. And one of the remarkable things of how all these groups of outsiders created the city to become insiders ally was doing research i came across the first purchase of property of a little home they bought 1901. Thinks to this fantastic clerk, but everything is on line going back to the 19th century if you want to trace the property record of his ancestor, it is there. I came across of eddied where they paid so much cold and barr wrote the of breast without from the oppenheimer bank. Then to look down at the signatures come in a thin stream is spelled out in hero. She worked her name with the ex but yet these people from all these ethnic groups that came here with no money, did the speak english, how in the heck did they do it . It is a great story of america. People came with sold many disadvantages. And nathan came as speaking yiddish and russian very quickly verge the yiddish because those settlers and the farmers german was the principal language and he figured out the german in he became a texan. [laughter] and your grandmother never did right to english . Bin rashid death turned to right. The i am us grandchildren never heard an accent. She insisted her children speak could english with her children but becoming important to the development of modern san antonio and went to work when they were young. I sold soap but going to university of texas 1918 the professors to supplement their income in she insisted to go to college when very few women did. These books tell different stories but there is some intersections talk about the strike involving the workers and that is the big part of the story because of the story of the of west side this is how they made a living there is difficult conditions. Can you talk about that . At the height of the industry there were 20,000 Mexican Americans who worked where you would deliver piquancy but officials and took out the meat in that was important for the west side for the industry that was there