Today we honor Bertha Sadler Means whose century of life reshaped the civil rights, educational, and business landscape of Austin, Texas. After she and her children were denied access to the local Ice Palace skating rink and Barton Springs Pool, she founded the Mothers Action Council.  Ms. Sadler Means organized a year-long picket of the rink and other public facilities until they were successfully integrated by July 1963.  She was a dedicated member of the NAACP and served as a delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention.  Ms. Sadler Means was among the first Black educators to teach in Austin's white-majority schools. She also taught at the University of Texas at Austin and Prairie View A&M University.    Her support of her alma mater led to the creation of the Bertha Sadler Means African American Resource Center at Huston-Tillotson University.  Austin ISD’s  Bertha Sadler Means Young Women’s Leadership Academy began in 2014. 

Students, please start looking through the lost and found by the gym for your lost item before it gets too full and you don’t want to dig through things. 

Reminder—There is no school tomorrow, March 31st.  Classes will resume on Wednesday, April 1st.