THE HISTORY OF  TE X A S

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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
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
"folk islands"
Little Joe y La Familia
Freddie Fender
Katherine Anne Porter
Elizabeth Ney
Henry A. McArdle
Robert Jenkins & Julian Onderdonk

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