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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:11:00

In 1973 neighbours stood between this building and the bulldozers, using their bodies as shields - and won. The Jo Long Theatre for the Performing Arts, the 650-seat mainstage of the Carver Community Cultural Center at 226 North Hackberry Street on San Antonio's Eastside, is the survivor of one of the city's great acts of civil defiance. The building went up in 1918 as a community centre for African-Americans in segregated San Antonio, becoming the Colored Library - renamed the Carver Library a...