Gonzalez blazed trails and ruffled feathers

After speaking for 21 straight hours in the Texas Senate, the freshman lawmaker from San Antonio finally yielded the floor on May 3, 1957. The parents of Enrique Barbosa Gonzalez were among the 430,000 Mexicans that poured into Texas during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Like many of their fellow refugees fleeing the chaos and carnage of revolution in their native land, they…