Audie Murphy
Dwight David Eisenhower  
Chester A. Nimitz     
Oveta Culp Hobby    
Doris Miller       
bracero program      
Gilmer-Aikin Laws of 1949 
Sputnik--launch and reaction
G. I. Bill of Rights/Senator Ralph Yarborough       
Dr. Hector P. Garcia/American G. I. Forum
Felix Z. Longoria
Alonso S. Perales    
Janis Joplin
J. T. Canales
George I. Sanchez   
Carlos E. Castaneda
Delgado v. Bastrop Independent School District (1948)

Americo Paredes
Hernandez v. the State of Texas
Henry B. Gonzalez
Heman Sweatt/Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education  (1954)
Red Scare/McCarthyism
John Henry Faulk
Lamar Hunt/"Bud" Adams  (AFL)
Clint Murchison, Jr. (NFL)
Tom Landry/Dallas Cowboys
"Babe" Didrikson Zaharias 
Buddy Holly
E. M. "Buck" Schiwetz
Amado Pena
Jose Cisneros
Luis Jimenez
Willie Nelson
Larry McMurtry