Cheryl Wyatt lived in an era when segregation was at its peak. Her priority is making sure Black history is preserved and told today.
PUBLISHED 8:40 PM CDT Apr. 06, 2023“You couldn’t sit at certain places. I asked why. They said, 'Well, that’s the way it is in Texas,'” Wyatt said.
“Go to the movies at the Majestic Theatre — that was another place we can't go through the front; we had to go around the back,” Wyatt said. “The waitress came over [and said], 'You need to get your blankety, blank up, you are not supposed to be sitting here,'” Wyatt recalled. “Educate the kids on things that’s not in the textbooks, they won’t put in the books, things that Blacks have achieved from slavery and on,” Wyatt said.
“I think it would be a disservice and an injustice not to show what we went through, and what I went through, what my family went through as Black Americans in San Antonio,” Wyatt said in a recent City Council meeting. The Alamo Trust told Spectrum News 1 that there aren't even renderings yet, but a major question Wyatt wants answered is who is going to decide what’s going in the museum.
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