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The vast majority of the newspaper clippings are dated to the early 1980s, indicated by a handwritten description. All of the news stories are about Metz Elementary and the activities that students were involved in.

A photo is taken of a mother explaining to her daughter the significance of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education that ruled that racial segregation of children in public schools in unconstitutional.

Digital photo of the Lorraine "Grandma" Camacho Activity Center located in East Austin

This image shows students being bused to majority-white schools in 1971, after Austin ISD begins mandatory one-way busing to meet federal desegregation rules.

This article details the history of failed desegregation in Austin (spanning from 1928 to 1987) and how the domino effects of that event led to AISD's decision to shut down underenrolled schools in 2019.

It is a black three-inch wide binder, it contains about two inches of photocopied newspaper clippings, pictures, and other materials inside plastic sheet protectors. The materials cover the haunting of Metz, important individuals in Metz history,…

The image depicts an actor, Taylor Kitsch visiting Metz Elementary School as part of a "Friday Night Lights" event for Read Across America literacy programming at the school. An excerpt image from the second Don Bos Metz history binder.

This chart uses raw data from the Texas Education Agency to map the decrease in enrollment from 2011-2020.