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Bonilla says state must provide better education for minorities (open access)

Bonilla says state must provide better education for minorities

Newspaper clipping about that Rubén Bonilla, Head of the League of United Latin American Citizens, responding to the statistics from the Texas Education Agency. Bonilla says that the Texas schools may soon have white populations in the minority over Mexican American and African American students. It will be necessary for the Texans to adjust their way of life to provide for the economic needs of a growing minority population.
Date: January 22, 1980
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well done, Mr. Shepperd (open access)

Well done, Mr. Shepperd

Clipping of an article in The Waco News-Tribune about Texas attorney general John Ben Shepperd and his accomplishments, while in office, for the state of Texas. The article addresses Shepperd's foil of a "Communist inspired plot". It also elaborates on Shepperd's staff and his accomplishments on "a staggering amount of legal labor expended on behalf of the people of Texas." There is an emphasis at the end of the return of unused budget money to the state treasury, a show of his "efficiency" while in office.
Date: January 22, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Barton aims to keep military ban on gays] (open access)

[Clipping: Barton aims to keep military ban on gays]

Newspaper clipping from The Dallas Morning News featuring an article about the military gay ban in the United States.
Date: January 22, 1993
Creator: Michel, Karen Lincoln
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Clipping: Pecos River Discussed For New Channel] (open access)

[Clipping: Pecos River Discussed For New Channel]

Clipping describing plans for a 16-mile channel on the Pecos River in New Mexico to make additional water available for irrigation.
Date: January 22, 1955
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Astonishing Headline] (open access)

[Clipping: Astonishing Headline]

Clipping by Ella Newell describing a proposal to remove esplanades from the roadways in Galveston.
Date: January 22, 1948
Creator: Newell, Ella Sealy
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Housing for Airport Area Negroes] (open access)

[Clipping: Housing for Airport Area Negroes]

Clipping of an article from the Dallas Morning News regarding how a Black residential area is dealing with a housing shortage due to Love Field extending their land to their area for their airport. Many false accusations of the number of Black people and families who lost their homes and have now become homeless were made. However, this is not the case due to the Dallas Citizens' Association's plan to construct more homes to aid the current housing shortage, which will benefit all Black people in the Dallas area.
Date: January 22, 1953
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library