Texas

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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.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  1/22/19
  

  El Paso museum sheds light on Border Patrol's history, mission

  "For the most part, the museum does a fair job of explaining the agency's metamorphosis."

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• SOURCE: AP
  1/11/19
  

  Texas set to remove Confederate plaque from state Capitol

  “Why shouldn’t we be able to talk about the monuments on the Capitol grounds or anything else,” Johnson said. “I don’t think it’s a conversation we should be afraid to have, not in 2019 in America, in Texas.”

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• SOURCE: Houston Chronicle
  1/9/19
  

  ‘Human lives were not of value’: African-American remains awaken history of convict-leasing system

  The discovery of 95 African-American remains at a Fort Bend school district construction site has put a new focus on the brutal history of the state’s convict-leasing system and the use of inmates to make money for the prisons.

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• SOURCE: Dallas News
  12-6-2018
  

  University of Texas to re-erect statue of James Hogg after removing it in 2017 because of Confederate ties

  UT President Gregory Fenves made the announcement in a letter to the UT community Thursday, lauding the first Texas-born governor's contributions to the state while acknowledging that he was a child during the Civil War with a "complicated and nuanced legacy."

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• SOURCE: Texas Observer
  11-26-2018
  

  Who Writes History?

  The Fight to Commemorate a Massacre by the Texas Rangers

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• SOURCE: NPR
  11-16-18
  

  Texas Students Will Soon Learn Slavery Played A Central Role In The Civil War

  The state's previous social studies standards listed three causes for the Civil War: sectionalism, states' rights and slavery, in that order.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  11-14-18
  

  In reversal, Texas board votes to restore Hillary Clinton to history curriculum

  The board voted 12-2 to keep Clinton in the curriculum, with Republicans Pat Hardy and Geraldine Miller opposing the proposal.

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• SOURCE: NYT Editorial
  10-27-18
  

  The NYT says Sugarland, Texas needs to come to terms with its past

  by Brent Staples

  In an extraordinary full-page editorial the Times recounts Sugarland's gruesome convict leasing system and its forgotten history.

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• SOURCE: Weatherford Democrat
  9-27-18
  

  Texas students will now have a chance to learn about the state’s hispanic past

  The state education board approved a new course in Mexican American Studies.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-20-18
  

  Leader of Texas Board that dropped Hillary Clinton explains their reasoning

  by Donna Bahorich

  She wrote an op ed for the WaPo. Here’s her explanation.

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• SOURCE: Dallas News
  9-16-18 (accessed)
  

  Texas board votes to eliminate Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller from history curriculum

  As part of an effort to "streamline" the social studies curriculum in public schools, the State Board of Education voted Friday to adjust what students in every grade are required to learn in the classroom.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-13-18
  

  Documenting ‘Slavery by Another Name’ in Texas

  by NYT Editorial Board

  An African-American burial ground recently unearthed in Texas reveals details about an ugly chapter in the history of the American South.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-28-18
  

  Remains of Black People Forced Into Labor After Slavery Are Discovered in Texas

  A historic cemetery was discovered on the construction site of a new school outside Houston. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-9-18
  

  In Texas, a Decades-Old Hate Crime, Forgiven but Never Forgotten

  It’s ben 20 years since James Byrd Jr. was dragged to his death behind a pickup truck.