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Their granddaughter, Mollie Taylor Stevenson Sr. (1911-2003), a graduate of Fisk University, and her daughter, Mollie Taylor Stevenson Jr., (1946), who attended Texas Southern University, were both inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in 2001, the first living African-American women to receive the honor. [4] [5]
A growing number of Americans are bringing guns to the airport, but not all of them are creatively hidden. ... Texas. 2. A replica IED attached to a walkie talkie was found at El Paso ...
The Tenth Street Freedman's Town is a historic African American community in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Texas.A freedmen's town is a community settled by formerly enslaved people who were emancipated during and after the American Civil War.
The Porvenir massacre was an incident on January 28, 1918, outside the village of Porvenir, in Presidio County, Texas, in which Texas Rangers and local ranchers, with the support of US Cavalry, killed 15 unarmed Mexican American boys and men. [1]: 64 The Texas Rangers Company B had been sent to the area to stop banditry after the Brite Ranch ...
Michael Waters is an American academic working as a professor of anthropology and geography at Texas A&M University, where he holds the Endowed Chair in First American Studies. [1] He specializes in geoarchaeology, [ 1 ] and has applied this method to the investigation of Clovis and later Paleo-Indian, and possible pre-Clovis occupation sites.
On May 14, 1841, Brig. Gen. Edward H. Tarrant, known as “Old Hurricane,” led a militia of 69 men from Red River County to quell Native American raids in North Texas.
The settlers who received their titles under Stephen's first contract, known today as the Old Three Hundred, made up the first organized, approved group of Anglo-American immigrants from the United States to Texas. The new land titles were located in an area where no Spanish or Mexican settlements had existed.
The Hasinai Confederacy (Caddo: Hasíinay [2]) was a large confederation of Caddo-speaking Native Americans who occupied territory between the Sabine and Trinity rivers in eastern Texas. Today, their descendants are enrolled in the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma and the Natchitoches Tribe of Louisiana.