Wake up with the sheriff knocking at the door. Court cases have played a part in popular movies. Listen to cspan radio at 90. 1 fm in the washington dc area. Online at cspan. Org. Download our cspan radio app. Herhe cspan cities to visits literary and Historic Sites across the nation every other weekend on cspan2s book tv and cspan3s American History tv. This month with congress on its summer resource summer recess, the city tour is on pan each day at 6 00 a. M. P. M. Eastern. Welcome to austin on American History tv. With help from our car mourner Time Warner Cable partners, we will explore the city of the capital of texas. Austin is referred to as the live music capital of the world because of the venues in the city. It has a population just under one million. Ofe a behind the scenes tour the president ial suite at the Lyndon Johnson president ial library and museum. Didsuite looks just as it with the former president roamed its halls. The space is really a living, breathing artifact
Corrected by reconstruction. This was the constitution that was written in 1875, and interestingly, texas still operates under this constitution today, even though it has had hundreds of amendments to make changes to it. We can flip to the signature page of the document, which contains all of the original signatures from 1876. As you can imagine, these are many of the most prominent men of their day. While this document addressed some issues of inequality, of course, these problems did not go away with equality, and franchise men, most notably even though men of african dissent could theoretically vote, women were not allowed to vote until well into the 20th century. This is a memorial to the Texas Legislature in 1884 by the undersigned committee of colored men. I guess that is kind of a predecessor of the black caucus. They are asking for redress on several issues that pertain to people of african dissent descen living in texas at the time. Tthis small leaflet entitled handicapped was
Bob dole and george mitchell. Let us know about the programs you are watching. Call us, email us, or send us a tweet. Join the cspan conversation. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. All weekend American History tv is featuring austin texas the loans star States Capital and fourthlargest city. Hosted by our Time Warner Cable partners, cspans city tours staff recently visited sites showcasing austins history. Learn more about austin all weekend here on American History tv. The Texas State Library and Archives Commission is a state agency that was founded by the state with a very simple but powerful mission, and that is to make sure that texans have the information that they need to live informed, productive, and fulfilled lives, and we also provide and house the archives of the state of texas, which is the historical record of the state of texas going back to the republic of texas state and even earlier than that. What you will see today is a collection of some of the most iconic
Documents from our collection of the document, the Texas Freedom and the struggle of various groups in texas for freedom equality, and civil rights. Today were in the loren saah day zavala state archives building in austin texas right on the capitol grounds. This is an original portrait of stephen f. Austin, the father of anglo colonization in texas. We believe this portrait was painted from life before his death in 1836. 6 this is an important map that was researched and compiled stephen f. Austin. If he and his father knew texas would be successful, they would have to have a good map of the area. So he worked with the tanner publication or the Publishing Company in philadelphia to create this map. The earliest one was in 1830s. And they issued several editions. The last one being 1836. The 1836 map. Youll notice that it still has the mexican eagle in the cartoush here. At this time in 1836, this time in the publication, it was still part of mexico. This book is a publication of the p
The city of Brenham announced the promotion of interim Librarian Tammy Murphy, officially removing the “interim” title and welcoming her as the official librarian of the Nancy Carol Roberts Memorial