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Fifty years experience in Texas
Author: Fifty Years Experience in Texas
Author: Austin NurseryA Good Long Drive
Author: Bob PhillipsPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477324011
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
In 2021, Texas County Reporter celebrates its fiftieth season on the air. Broadcast every week on stations across Texas, it focuses on “ordinary people doing extraordinary things.” And at the center of it is Bob Phillips, the show’s creator and host—an erstwhile poor kid from Dallas who ended up with a job that allowed him to rub elbows with sports figures, entertainers, and politicians but who preferred to spend his time on the backroads, listening to less-famous Texans tell their stories. In this memoir, Phillips tells his own story, from his early days as a reporter and his initial pitch for the show while a student at SMU to his ongoing work at the longest-running independently produced TV show in American television history. As we travel with Phillips on his journey, we meet Willie Nelson and become friends with former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry; reflect on memorable, unusual, and challenging show segments; experience the behind-the-scenes drama that goes on in local television; launch an annual festival; and discover the unbelievable allure of Texas, its culture, and, especially, its people. Spanning generations, A Good Long Drive is proof that life’s journey really is a destination all in itself.
Fifty Years in Journalism Embracing Recollections and Personal Experiences with an Autobiography
Author: Beman BrockwayReminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas
Author: John J. LinnIntegrating the 40 Acres
Author: Dwonna GoldstonePublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820340855
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
You name it, we can't do it. That was how one African American student at the University of Texas at Austin summed up his experiences in a 1960 newspaper article--some ten years after the beginning of court-mandated desegregation at the school. In this first full-length history of the university's desegregation, Dwonna Goldstone examines how, for decades, administrators only gradually undid the most visible signs of formal segregation while putting their greatest efforts into preventing true racial integration. In response to the 1956 Board of Regents decision to admit African American undergraduates, for example, the dean of students and the director of the student activities center stopped scheduling dances to prevent racial intermingling in a social setting. Goldstone's coverage ranges from the 1950 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the University of Texas School of Law had to admit Heman Sweatt, an African American, through the 1994 Hopwood v. Texas decision, which ended affirmative action in the state's public institutions of higher education. She draws on oral histories, university documents, and newspaper accounts to detail how the university moved from open discrimination to foot-dragging acceptance to mixed successes in the integration of athletics, classrooms, dormitories, extracurricular activities, and student recruitment. Goldstone incorporates not only the perspectives of university administrators, students, alumni, and donors, but also voices from all sides of the civil rights movement at the local and national level. This instructive story of power, race, money, and politics remains relevant to the modern university and the continuing question about what it means to be integrated.
Fifty Years Under the Bench in Texas
Author: James A. FeaginPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258490867
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Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas
Author: John Joseph LinnPublisher:
ISBN: 9780938349006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Personal recollections, written by an early Texas pioneer leader.
Fifty Years Under the Bench in Texas
Author: Jim FeaginFifty Years in Texas
Author: John Wesley CadwellPublisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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