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How the Rebel mascot came to be
The Hays Rebels didn’t exist until 1968 – the same year Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated. However, the Civil Rights movement with all its marches and ideals were seemingly very far from Central Texas, where many communities were only just emerging from their rural cultures.
Schools in Kyle, Buda and Wimberley were brought together as the nascent Hays Consolidated School District (Wimberley would form its own in 1986) and, according to “A Tribute to Visi...