The Houston Chronicle's "Minority groups 'fighting as one': NAACP, LULAC align in symbiotic, and sometimes strained, pursuit of common goals" has all the details:

...The groups took the idea further on Monday in Austin, when LULAC state director Roger Rocha and Texas NAACP President Gary Bledsoe stood side by side on the steps of the Capitol during a rally with 100 members of their organizations.

"We are here together as two organizations, fighting as one," said Rocha. "Everything we've worked so hard for will not go silently into the night."

Bledsoe described Hispanics and blacks as "communities under siege..."

For more on LULAC, see Bush rebuffed by "Latinos".