Civil rights icon Peña dies at 88. Texas

“Albert A. Peña Jr., a scrappy former Bexar County commissioner, Municipal Court judge and pioneering civil rights leader who helped desegregate South Texas schools, died Monday at age 88. A grassroots liberal Democrat, the outspoken Peña used to say he loved a good fight.

“I’m conditioned to opposition,” said Peña, who often used his publication, Vanguardia, to admonish his critics. “Anybody who disturbs the status quo and convulses the establishment is going to get opposition.’”

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