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Family legacies and the state’s Jim Crow past underlie a fight over mineral rights on a stretch of South Texas scrubland
Read full article: Family legacies and the state’s Jim Crow past underlie a fight over mineral rights on a stretch of South Texas scrublandDescendants of a prominent white family and a formerly enslaved couple are fighting over ownership — and the oil and gas royalties that would come with it — of an 147.5-acre tract that has bound and divided generations of their families.
A battle over who gets to tell Texas history is brewing into a war over the state historical association’s future
Read full article: A battle over who gets to tell Texas history is brewing into a war over the state historical association’s futureTexas State Historical Association members can’t agree on the makeup of the group’s board. And Executive Director J.P. Bryan, a descendant of Stephen F. Austin, is suing.
1836 Project promotes sanitized version of Texas history, experts say
Read full article: 1836 Project promotes sanitized version of Texas history, experts sayThe Texas Tribune reviewed the 15-page document, which will be handed out to new drivers, and asked historians to comment on how accurately and thoroughly it chronicles the state’s history.
Decades after Texas took part of its historic farm, a family fights again to save its land from a highway expansion
Read full article: Decades after Texas took part of its historic farm, a family fights again to save its land from a highway expansionDaniel Alexander was enslaved when he founded a farm before the Civil War. 175 years later, his family is fighting to keep it intact as Texas plans to expand U.S. Highway 183.