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"Uncle Dick and Aunt Angie, Davilla, Texas, slaves of Jack's grandparents" (DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University) The history of slavery in Texas began slowly at first during the first few phases in Texas' history. Texas was a colonial territory, then part of Mexico, later Republic in 1836, and U.S. state in 1845.
17 March – First day of the Australian Track & Field Championships for the 1988–1989 season, which are held at the QEII Stadium in Brisbane, Queensland. 23 July – Bradley Camp wins the men's national marathon title, clocking 2:10:10 in Brisbane , while Jan Federick claims the women's title in 2:51:30.
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1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the communist dictatorship ...
A proposal by Texas state educators to call slavery “involuntary relocation” in second grade classes has been rejected by the State Board of Education. The proposal, first reported by the ...
Rebecca Hawkins Hagerty (née McIntosh; March 15, 1815 – c. 1888) was an American plantation owner and enslaver who, in 19th-century America, managed two plantations in Texas, enslaving over 100 people, with real and personal property values above $100,000, equivalent to $3 million in 2023, for more than a decade.
A working group of Texas educators wants to omit the word “slavery” from second-grade social studies instruction and instead use The post Education proposal in Texas would replace ‘slavery ...
The events on and around the central Beijing square on June 4, 1989, when Chinese troops opened fire to end the student-led pro-democracy demonstrations, are a taboo topic in China and the ...