Here due to the conflicts between two european empires, france and spain in the 18th century. Spain had, of course, established itself well in latin america and south america and in mexico. France was over to the northeast in louisiana, and it was up it reached up to the northern border of new spain along the red river. It was causing trouble with the indians and looking into the reaches of texas into the silver mines. The spaniards knew they had to have some sort of defense, and they came upon san antonio. So in 1618, 302 years ago, san antonio was established here. The first thing the priest did when they set up a Community Like san antonio is to build a church. The second thing they did was to set up a water system, and in texas, you have rivers, but you dont really have a lot of green fertile areas too far away from them. So to address that, they drew from their experience in spain, which had come from arabia, which had come from the roman empire, a system of irrigation ditches. Th
Different approaches to segregation. When we react, does a fiend, you are talking about significant as tlc. Different approaches to reach the same goal. Sometimes it will work, depending on who you are and what the situation is. We need to take time to look at how all those things come together at how all of those things come together, not condemn one way or another way. You have to take in the full context to understand what was happening. So these stories will help us see when we are in our own situation today, it is all right to take different approaches, depending on what was happening at the time. Thank you for that. I wanted to follow up with another question. Can you talk about who Maggie Walker was . She was one of the first africanamerican women to register to vote after the 19th amendment was ratified. Tell us a little bit about who she was and is there anything in her personal papers, anything she wrote or said that gives us insight into how she felt . Clearly she thought it
As the city grew and the railroad came, the population exploded. Gravity driven Water Systems were not working. Wasw water system established with artesian wells, which took water from the ground and lowered the water table. The San Antonio River was frequently going guy fastgrowing dry. The city created a park through downtown for what was to be the riverwalk. It was here for about 25 years. Initiated toct was develop the riverwalk. An architect came up with a that would give a fanciful appearance to the area that would include shops, boats, and colorful walkways that would dress up the river. Thatd all right except nobody came down to the riverwalk. It became dangerous. It was not until the worlds fair in 1968 that enough hotels a strongt to generate pedestrian traffic to support businesses. Of was a lot of commercial development. The riverwalk became successful as we know it. Being below the level of the street, it is warmer down here. We have a semi tropical Botanical Garden and th
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Ditches that came from it and furnished water to the growing community. As the city grew, the railroad came in the 1870s and the population exploded, gravity driven Water Systems were not working. They couldnt get water to run over a hill, so a new water system was established with artesian wells. Which, when drilled into the ground and when lowered into the ground, they lowered the water table. So the San Antonio River was frequently going dry. At that point, in 1914, the city created a park through downtown along what was to be the riverwalk. A park and plantings, not too much else. Which was here for about 25 years, until with the wpa, a project was initiated to develop the riverwalk. An architect by the name of robert husband, came up with a design that would give a fanciful appearance to the area. It would include shops and boats and colorful walkways that would dress up the rivers. Which did all right, except that nobody came down to the riverwalk. It became dangerous. It was not