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.