night 'salons' at the gallery were an important part of Houston's emerging art scene." Dreyer Galleries also became a center for the city's literary, bohemian, and liberal political communities. Martin Dreyer wrote in The Houston Review, "Once Jane Fonda came [to Dreyer Galleries] to speak in support of antiwar GIs. She climbed up on a chair in the main gallery room and gave her pitch to assorted folks packed around the pre-Columbian sculptures and other obstacles d'art." Dreyer Galleries also hosted Ramparts publisher and editor Warren Hinckle, filmmakers Robert Altman and Lou Adler, Houston Mayor Fred Hofheinz, U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland, and other prominent figures in the arts and politics. In the middle and late 1960s, Margaret and Martin Dreyer played a prominent and very public role in social and progressive political causes. The Houston Review's Robert V. Haynes wrote that, "In addition to being a champion of the arts in a city which valued materialism above cultural things, [Margaret Dreyer] was also an ardent supporter of liberal causes and a passionate critic of the Vietnam War." The Dreyers' activities made them prime targets for an increasingly militant Ku Klux Klan group. Night riders threw red paint on the front of the gallery and shot a bullet through a glass pane in the gallery's front door. The bullet lodged in a mosaic wall in the entry. Maggie refused to repair the damage, considering it an emblem of honor. The Klan took credit for bombing and shooting up the offices of Space City!, the newspaper their son Thorne helped publish. Thorne later wrote, "Ironically, the work of the KKK scared nobody off, and if anything, the violent acts just seemed to strengthen the commitment of the peace activists and counterculture denizens--and made the radical community even more cohesive and purposed. To say nothing of providing a lot of free publicity!" Dreyer also lent her support to the women's movement and her work was featured in several all-woman shows including an International Women's Year exhibit at Houston's Contemporary Arts Museum in 1975. Artist Dreyer's work was exhibited at all major Texas museums and in museums and galleries in the United States and Mexico. Year after year, she won best-of-show awards and purchase prizes in major juried exhibitions. She was featured in Houston Women: Invisible Threads in the Tapestry by Betty Trapp Chapman — a survey of the role played by important women