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Instructor E-Sources PowerPoint™ Presentation Chapter 9 Early Twentieth-Century Texas. The History of Texas Harlan Davidson, Inc. Learning Outcomes (9). Cite key reasons for the transformation of Texas,
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Instructor E-SourcesPowerPoint™ PresentationChapter 9Early Twentieth-Century Texas The History of Texas Harlan Davidson, Inc.
Learning Outcomes (9) • Cite key reasons for the transformation of Texas, • account for the differences between the rural and urban character and how concerns were politicized, • understand how and why labor organization developed, • appreciate the impact of the Black Bourgeoisie as well as the Black Migration.
Early 20th Century Texas • The Texas Economy • Oil • Corsicana strike • Spindletop ~ 1901 • Oil related industries • Refining • Oil field equipment • Natural gas • Texas boomtowns Gladys City Spindletop
Early 20th Century Texas • The Texas Economy • Extraction industries • Slaughtering • Oil drilling • Coke mining • Cotton seed pressing • Four milling • Manufacturing • Ship building • Oil & petrochemicals
Early 20th Century Texas • The Texas Economy • Urban Growth • Texas cities ~ Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Ft. Worth, & El Paso • Galveston • 1901 Hurricane • Commission Plan governance • Modernization • “city beautiful” movement • Urbanization & new technologies
Early 20th Century Texas • The Texas Economy • Workers • 48 hour work-week • Wage increase and cost of living • Women and work • new technologies • “women’s work” • the New Woman • Labor Unions • Factors influencing decline • 1920 Galveston dockworkers strike
Early 20th Century Texas • The Texas Economy • Agriculture & rural life • Cotton remains king • Livestock • Mechanization • Tenant farming • “Halfers” & “croppers” • The diversification challenge
Early 20th Century Texas • Texas Society • Farm laborers • Migrant Hispanic workers • Day laborers • Farm women & families • New technologies minimal impact • Less then 5% electrification of farms • Less than 15% water in kitchen • Family Patterns ~ changing demographics
Ethnic Texans • Blacks in Texas • Racism • Urbanization • Political “bosses,” Charles Bellinger & San Antonio • Nixon v Herndon, ruling & denial • Segregation • Public facilities • Neighborhoods • Violence • Race riots • lynching
Ethnic Texans • Blacks in Texas • Rural Blacks • Farmer’s Improvement Society • The cooperative movement • Urban Life • Black migration • Escape routes • Cities • Northern states • Africa
Ethnic Texans • Blacks in Texas • The Black bourgeoisie • Professionalization • Negro Business League • Social, Religious, & Fraternal Organizations • Black Churches • cornerstone of social life • Leadership training • Fraternal organizations & Lodges • Black Masons • Black chapters of Knights of Pythias
Ethnic Texans Tillie Brackenridge in San Antonio, ca. 1900
Ethnic Texans • Blacks in Texas • Education • School Segregation • Teacher accreditation • Social, Cultural & Recreational life • Juneteenth celebrations • Baseball & Boxing • Sports heroes • Texas Blues • Black newspapers “Rube” Foster Calvert native
Ethnic Texans • Tejanos • Discrimination • Working Conditions & Organized Labor • Migrant pickers • The “Big Swing” • Industrial unionism • Self-help organizations • Social services & political bosses • League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
Ethnic Texans • Tejanos • Social, Cultural, & Recreational Activities • Tejano sports • Festivals & holidays • Music • Corridos • Conjunto • Orquestra • Other ethnic groups Conjunto Alamo: Leandro Guerro & Frank Corrales
Ethnic Texans 1905 Confirmation class, Temple B’nai Israel, Galveston, Texas
Early Twentieth-Century Texas • Literature and the Arts • Frontier adventure tales • Historians, writers, & the arts • 1897 Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) • Texana • J. Frank Dobie • Walter Prescott Webb • Roy Bedicheck • Novelists & poets • Katherine Anne Porter • Francis D. Allan • Elizabeth Ney • Texas Music
Magnolia Petroleum Co. (Mobil) Lone Star Gas Co. (ran 1st pipeline) Humble Oil Co. Texas City Desdemona ("Hog Town") Fort Worth ("Cow Town") commission form of govt.-Galveston city-manager form of govt. Houston Ship Channel Texas State Federation of Labor mechanization of agriculture boll weevil Nixon v. Herndon (1927) Jesse Washington NAACP George Pierce Garrison TSHA J. Frank Dobie Walter Prescott Webb Maury Maverick de jure segregation Marcus Garvey Liberia The Black Bourgeoisie Prairie View A & M 1906 racial disturbance in Brownsville Longview race riot (1919) Andrew "Rube" Foster "greaser" “halfers" or "croppers" "King Cotton," la pizca Jim Wells, Manuel Guerra conjunto, corridos Paulino Bernal "folk islands" Little Joe y La Familia Freddie Fender Katherine Anne Porter Elizabeth Ney Henry A. McArdle Robert Jenkins & Julian Onderdonk Key Words & Terms (9)