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86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3209, Chapter 540 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3209, Chapter 540

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Waller County Municipal Utility District No. 35; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.
Date: June 10, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3211, Chapter 541 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3211, Chapter 541

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Waller County Municipal Utility District No. 34; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.
Date: June 10, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3214, Chapter 542 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3214, Chapter 542

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Waller County Water Control and Improvement District No. 3; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.
Date: June 10, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Oral History Article: Becky Diaz] (open access)

[Oral History Article: Becky Diaz]

This article is a short biography of journalist Becky Diaz, based on an oral history discussing her education and career.
Date: December 5, 2016
Creator: Unogwu, Rita; Cardena, Luissana & Russell, Jasmine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Becky Diaz, Fall 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Becky Diaz, Fall 2016

Interview with journalist Becky Diaz describing how she became interested in media communications as well as her education and work experience in radio and television.
Date: 2016-11~
Creator: Unogwu, Rita; Russell, Jasmine; Cardena, Luissana & Diaz, Becky
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Perri McCary, July 28, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Perri McCary, July 28, 2016

Perri "P.K." McCary was born in 1953 in Texarkana. She grew-up in a ethnically diverse community in Alamo Garden, New Mexico and later lived near Prairie View A&M University when her father obtained a teaching position in the Industrial Education Department. McCary's parents gave her the tools to resist discrimination by exhibiting a strong sense of self and for confronting racist acts in front of her. She would opt to attend Jack Yates High School when her family moved to Houston because of the poor treatment of African-American students at the predominately white Madison High School. By 1970, McCary was attending the University of Houston and becoming involved in student activism. She would later engage in peace work and adapting religious texts with Black urban language to appeal to youth. She talks about instances of racism growing up, how her early experiences with diversity shaped the ways in which she engaged in cross-racial collaborations in her adult life, how Deloyed Parker and Ester King mentored her at UH, police brutality, and her family's association with the political movements of the 1960s and 1970s. She also discusses SHAPE Community Center and the Elders Institute of Wisdom, when she wrote a newspaper …
Date: July 28, 2016
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & McCary, Perri
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Grover Martin, June 9, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Grover Martin, June 9, 2016

Grover Martin was born and raised in Prairie View and went to Prairie View A&M for his BA and MA. He moved to Amarillo to work in the local air force base and continued on in another federal government job until the early 1990s. He was part of the Amarillo NAACP and experienced all black education institutions.
Date: June 9, 2016
Creator: Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & Martin, Grover
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Water Plan: Region H, 2016, Volume 1. Main Report (open access)

Regional Water Plan: Region H, 2016, Volume 1. Main Report

Water plan for Region H describing water resources and suppliers in the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water management strategies, water conservation methods, drought response plans, financing methods, and the process of creation of the plan.
Date: November 2015
Creator: Region H Water Planning Group
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Halcyon Watkins, July 23, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Halcyon Watkins, July 23, 2015

Interview with Halcyon Watkins, a veterinarian from Prairie View, Texas. In her interview, Watkins discusses her family background, and her education at St. Frances de Sales School in Virginia, a Catholic boarding school for African American girls. She also discusses her education at Texas Southern University and Tuskegee University. While a student at TSU, Watkins participated in lunch counter and bus station sit-ins in Houston.
Date: July 23, 2015
Creator: Watkins, Halcyon & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James E. Johnson, July 21, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with James E. Johnson, July 21, 2015

Interview with James E. Johnson, a retired professor of education from Prairie View, Texas. Johnson earned a doctorate from Texas A&M in 1967 and taught at Prairie View A&M and Texas Southern University. In his interview, he discusses his early life, military service, attending Texas A&M, racial integration, and his career as an educator.
Date: July 21, 2015
Creator: Johnson, James E. & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Frank Jackson, July 7, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Frank Jackson, July 7, 2015

Interview with Frank Jackson, mayor of Prairie View, Texas. In the interview, Jackson discusses his early life and education in Luling, Texas, living under Jim Crow, his service in the U.S. Navy, the incorporation of Prairie View, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Date: July 16, 2015
Creator: Jackson, Frank & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Al and Larneatha Bowdre, July 14, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Al and Larneatha Bowdre, July 14, 2015

Interview with Al and Larneatha Bowdre, retired couple from Prairie View, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Bowdre discuss their childhood experiences, education, and raising their family in Texas. Mr. Bowdre also discusses his work as a volunteer firefighter.
Date: July 14, 2015
Creator: Bowdre, Al; Bowdre, Larneatha; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Amy Boykin, July 9, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Amy Boykin, July 9, 2015

Interview with Amy Boykin, retired educator from Prairie View, Texas. She discusses her childhood in Prairie View, her education, her employment at Bishop College and McKinney schools, experiences with racial discrimination in Texas, and her activism.
Date: July 9, 2015
Creator: Boykin, Amy & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jimmie Poindexter, July 9, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Jimmie Poindexter, July 9, 2015

Interview with Jimmie Poindexter from Prairie View, Texas. In her interview, Poindexter discusses her family history, education, attending Howard University, community organizations and civil rights activism.
Date: July 9, 2015
Creator: Poindexter, Jimmie & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Wayne Sadberry, July 8, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Wayne Sadberry, July 8, 2015

Interview with Wayne Sadberry, a curator at the Brazos Valley African-American Museum from Prairie View, Texas. Sadberry discusses his early life, family background, and living under Jim Crow segregation. Sadberry also discusses his education at St. Emma Military Academy in Powhatan, Virginia and service in the Air Force. He also discusses working as a research assistant on a grant project to Antarctica while a graduate student at Texas A&M.
Date: July 8, 2015
Creator: Sadberry, Wayne & Moye, Todd
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Upper Barker Watershed Flood Protection Planning Study Final Report (open access)

Upper Barker Watershed Flood Protection Planning Study Final Report

Report on a flood protection and management plan for the Upper Barker Watershed.
Date: June 26, 2015
Creator: Halff Associates
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4158, Chapter 879 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4158, Chapter 879

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the East Waller County Management District; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, or taxes.
Date: June 18, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4133, Chapter 667 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4133, Chapter 667

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Waller County Municipal Utility District No. 23; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.
Date: June 17, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4134, Chapter 668 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4134, Chapter 668

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Waller County Municipal Utility District No. 20; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.
Date: June 17, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4129, Chapter 58 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4129, Chapter 58

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Waller County Municipal Utility District No. 22; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.
Date: May 22, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4132, Chapter 59 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4132, Chapter 59

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Waller County Municipal Utility District No. 21; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.
Date: May 22, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History

Dallas to Houston High-Speed Rail Environmental Impact Statement: Waller County

Map of Waller County depicting the route of a proposed high-speed railroad connecting Dallas and Houston.
Date: 2014
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brookshire Quadrangle

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24000
Date: 2013
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Buckhorn Quadrangle

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24000
Date: 2013
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History