Texas

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  8/1/2020
  

  96 Minutes

  An oral history by witnesses and survivors of Charles Whitman's mass shooting at the University of Texas on August 1, 1966. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/3/2020
  

  'We Always Knew What It Stood For': Small Texas Town Torn Over Its Confederate Statue

  "We're not asking them to destroy the statue," McFarland said. "We're asking them to remove it. I no longer want to have my taxpayer dollars keeping this symbol of hate and racism erected here on the courthouse square."

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• SOURCE: The Marshall Project
  7/29/2020
  

  Will The Reckoning Over Racist Names Include These Prisons?

  Historians including Robert Perkinson and Monica Muñoz Martinez discuss the impact of having today's cruelly punitive prisons named for racist figures of the Jim Crow era.

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  7/22/2020
  

  A Century Ago, One Lawmaker Went After the Most Powerful Cops in Texas. Then They Went After Him.

  by Tim Murphy

  The Texas Rangers were vicious enforcers of white power. J.T. Canales was the only Mexican American in the legislature. He lost the fight, but the reckoning he sought is finally underway. Historians Monica Muñoz Martinez and Doug Swanson explain.

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• SOURCE: Rice Thresher
  7/19/2020
  

  Reginald Moore, Sugar Land 95 Activist and “a People’s Historian,” Leaves Behind a Legacy of Endurance

  Armed with a voice and passion both larger than life, Moore began a community’s crusade to demand historical recognition from city officials, and pioneered a new chapter in Texas history. Rice University Professor Caleb McDaniel says "it's worth stressing what he brought to Rice" by partering with the university to develop an archive of his efforts to memorialize the convict-lease system.

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• SOURCE: Baltimore Sun
  7/15/2020
  

  University of Texas won’t Drop Song with Racist History as Players Requested

  University of Texas athletes had demanded that the university cease to use the song, which has roots in racist minstrelsy and the words of Robert E. Lee, as an anthem. 

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• 7/3/2020
  

  While Monuments are Being Removed, a Historian Asks Questions

  by Andrew Joseph Pegoda

  People have a right to walk around their neighborhood park without being terrorized by iconography devoted to people who denied their ancestors human rights.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/19/2020
  

  Growing Up with Juneteenth

  by Annette Gordon-Reed

  "I... did not know, as a child, how intensely African-Americans had fought to keep alive the memory of Juneteenth—to commemorate our ancestors’ struggles and their hopes, and to link them to our own."

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• SOURCE: KXAN
  6/15/2020
  

  Calls to End ‘Eyes of Texas’ Draw Focus to Professor’s Lessons on UT’s Racial History

  UT Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies Edmund T. Gordon explains how the university's spirit song is tied to Robert E. Lee.

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• SOURCE: Dallas Weekly
  5/28/2020
  

  Dallas Awarded $50,000 to Preserve Civil Rights History

  "This funding from our country’s National Park Service will certainly jump start efforts to educate our community about the Hall of Negro Life, and it is a direct recommendation of the Task Force that examined how we tell our history," said Council Member Adam Bazaldua.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/27/2019
  

  'I Cry All the Time.' A Century After 15 Mexican Men and Boys Were Massacred in Texas, Their Descendants Want Recognition

  by Jasmine Aguilera

  A century after a massacre of Mexican men by white Texans, these families are speaking up and telling the world what happened. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Observer
  8/30/19
  

  The Houston Flood Museum and the Harvey Memories Project Gather Harvey Memories for Historians of the Future

  They’re a time capsule of the destruction wrought by the deadliest storm to hit Texas since 1919.

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  7/28/2019
  

  Lessons For Today’s Careers From A Woman Who Changed History – Texas Governor Ann Richards

  Richards changed history by going out on many limbs throughout her life and career.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/22/19
  

  'Building over history': the prison graveyard buried under a Texas suburb

  The graveyard’s discovery was vindication for historian Reginald Moore, but it prompted a battle against those who prefer Sugar Land’s past remain buried.

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• SOURCE: Texas Perspectives
  6/10/19
  

  Voter Restrictions Have Deep History in Texas

  by Laurie B. Green

  Texas’ speedy ratification of the 19th Amendment represents a beacon for women’s political power in the U.S., but a critical assessment of the process it took to win it tells us far more about today’s political atmosphere and cautions us to compare the marketing of voting rights laws with their actual implications.

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• 3/26/19
  

  A Heartwarming Lost Chapter on Immigrants Emerges

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Playwright Harelik does not just tell his grandfather’s personal story in The Immigrant; he tells the story, in one way or another of all immigrants.

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• SOURCE: Express-News
  2/23/19
  

  Mexicans and Mexican-Americans the ‘forgotten dead’ in Texas history

  Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican-Americans routinely occurred in Texas, some of it even into the 1960s.

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• SOURCE: Ruidoso News
  2/14/19
  

  Cynthia E. Orozco presents at Latino history Texas symposium

  Orozco is the author of "No Mexicans, Women or Dogs, the Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement," a history of the origins of LULAC.

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• SOURCE: San Antonio Express
  2/12/19
  

  Native Americans want to reimagine Alamo as a cemetery

  Judging from the way it was summarily dismissed by the Alamo’s CEO, there may be trouble ahead.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/22/19
  

  Why Trump’s fearmongering about Muslims at the border misses the mark

  by Randa Tawil

  There are Muslims at the border. But they’ve been there since the late 19th century.