Texas

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  1/5/2020
  

  Until 1968, a Married Texas Woman Couldn’t Own Property or Start a Business Without Her Husband’s Permission. This Dallas Attorney Changed That

  Louise Raggio was the Texas attorney who pushed for the Marital Property Act of 1967 which legally allowed married women to take legal and financial actions without their husbands' permission (her prior legal career had been in technical violation of the law). 

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• SOURCE: Texas Observer
  12/11/2020
  

  Selena’s Life and Legacy in Corpus Christi

  Historian Cynthia E. Orozco discusses the life and legacy of the Tejana singer Selena Quintanilla as a new Netflix biographical series launches. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  12/13/2020
  

  Are Republicans Serious about a Secession Movement?

  Richard Kreitner, author of "Break It Up," argues that calls for secession have been a regular feature of American political life, though they usually amount to criticism instead of action. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Observer
  12/8/2020
  

  The Long, Winding Road that Led to the SBOE’s Decision for Texas Schools to Teach Abstinence-Plus Sex Education

  As with social studies, sex education in Texas has been subject to the control of social conservatives in positions of power in the state's educational establishment, demonstrating how the movement has shaped textbooks and curriculum for a generation. This may gradually be changing. 

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• 11/8/2020
  

  There is Nothing Sacred About the Military Vote

  by Rachel Gunter

  After a patient count, Joe Biden has claimed victory, and fears that late-arriving military absentee ballots could be subject to litigation that might decide the election have receded. This is fortunate, because history shows parties won't hesitate to interfere with the military vote for political advantage.

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• SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
  11/2/2020
  

  Whether Biden Wins or Loses, Texas is Now a Political Battleground

  by James Henson

  "Ironically, the return of real competition to Texas politics stems from the very thing that originally opened the door for Republicans: the political and cultural changes tied to the growing diversity that fractured the old Texas Democratic Party."

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• SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
  10/19/2020
  

  Conservative Activists in Texas Have Shaped the History All American Children Learn

  by Rob Alex Fitt

  "Liberal groups such as People for the American Way were aghast at what was happening in Texas. They launched counter campaigns in the early 1970s to try to break conservative activists’ stranglehold on the textbook selection process, to no avail."

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• SOURCE: Austin Chronicle
  9/25/2020
  

  Ways of Remembering: A Racial Geography Tour of UT-Austin’s Campus

  What makes the campus such a great teaching tool? "Nothing goes up on a college campus that hasn't been thought through," explains Gordon. "Everything that gets placed and gets named on a college campus has a meaning behind it."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/21/2020
  

  Though Often Mythologized, the Texas Rangers Have an Ugly History of Brutality

  by Jonathan S. Jones

  The link between racial violence and Texas law enforcement goes all the way back to the state’s original police force, the Texas Rangers.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/8/2020
  

  Debates over Race, History and Values Roil Texas A&M as Campus Diversifies

  Texas A&M's mostly white and conservative alumni network supports campus traditions that clash with the values of the school's increasingly diverse students today, highlighted in protests to remove a statue of a former university president who participated in massacres of Black soliders as a Confederate, violently purged Native people as a Texas Ranger, and presided over the violent aftermath of Reconstruction as Governor.

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• SOURCE: TCU 360
  8/26/2020
  

  Race and Reconciliation Initiative Begins Study into TCU’s History

  “We want to provide critical perspective, we want to deepen understanding so that we can really take on this idea of reconciliation and healing,” said RRI chair Frederick Gooding Jr.

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• SOURCE: KWTX
  8/24/2020
  

  Fort Hood: Historians and Veterans Pushing to Rename Post after Female Army Trailblazer

  Oveta Culp Hobby, a Killeen native, led the women’s Army corps during World War II.

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  

  The Texas Rangers' Lore Spurred Cultural Fawning and Sports Namesakes that have Long Masked a History of Violence and Racism

  John Morán González (University of Texas) and Benjamin Johnson (Loyola University, Chicago) founded Refusing to Forget, an organization that hopes to educate people about state-sanctioned violence against Tejanos in the early 20th century, including by the Texas Rangers.

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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.