Art application varies and includes painting, metal and mica overlay, lamination, riveting, color tinting, and torch fired plique a jour enamel. All custom work is made to order. Some of the shades pictured here are very complicated and take over 40 hours to make.
Geraldo Rivera is a life-long Republican and a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) who thinks the civil rights organization has become a satellite of the Democratic Party.
While no blacks were elected to the legislature during the entire period, Henry B. Gonzalez, Democrat from San Antonio and later a member of Congress, was the first Mexican American elected to the Texas Senate (1957â61) in the twentieth century and possibly since 1876 (an uncertainty caused by incomplete records).