What Story Should Be Told?
What Story Should Be told?
30 min: Did you know that the wealth that belongs to the university of Texas and Texas A & M was funded by oil discoveries? The Texas legislative set aside an original land grant of one million acres for future Texas colleges. But in 1883 another million acres was added to the land endowment. The land reserved for the university was very dry and wasn’t thought of to be worth much, especially not 4.4 billion dollars! Oil was first struck on this land in 1923 and in that same year, there were about 17 wells on that land producing mass amounts of oil. A huge building boom was triggered by the discovery of black gold on this future campus. Most of the buildings from the building boom are still used by students attending The University of Texas and Texas A & M.
20 min: During the Texas oil boom African-Americans, Mexicans, and women were not hired by oil companies. While the oil industry became more and more popular, more housekeeping and farming jobs came to the surface. Things like cooking, doing laundry, tending to crops, and carrying garbage were just a few opportunities for the minority groups. One African-American woman by the name of Willsie Lee McKinney moved to Midland in 1949 to take advantage of the better pay rate in areas the oil industry was starting to take off. Because more houses were being built during this time, more housekeepers like McKinney were needed. McKinney’s goal was to earn enough money to go back to school. Oil brought a chance of higher education to African-American groups in Texas.
10 min: Wink High School football was funded by oil companies. Oil companies not only helped fund the team but recruited players with the most potential to bring pride to the small town of Wink Texas. A very clever way to convince applicants to join the football team was to hire their fathers or family members to work with oil companies in Wink. Unfortunately we are out of time. We couldn’t get to the drastic change in divorce
30 min: Did you know that the wealth that belongs to the university of Texas and Texas A & M was funded by oil discoveries? The Texas legislative set aside an original land grant of one million acres for future Texas colleges. But in 1883 another million acres was added to the land endowment. The land reserved for the university was very dry and wasn’t thought of to be worth much, especially not 4.4 billion dollars! Oil was first struck on this land in 1923 and in that same year, there were about 17 wells on that land producing mass amounts of oil. A huge building boom was triggered by the discovery of black gold on this future campus. Most of the buildings from the building boom are still used by students attending The University of Texas and Texas A & M.
20 min: During the Texas oil boom African-Americans, Mexicans, and women were not hired by oil companies. While the oil industry became more and more popular, more housekeeping and farming jobs came to the surface. Things like cooking, doing laundry, tending to crops, and carrying garbage were just a few opportunities for the minority groups. One African-American woman by the name of Willsie Lee McKinney moved to Midland in 1949 to take advantage of the better pay rate in areas the oil industry was starting to take off. Because more houses were being built during this time, more housekeepers like McKinney were needed. McKinney’s goal was to earn enough money to go back to school. Oil brought a chance of higher education to African-American groups in Texas.
10 min: Wink High School football was funded by oil companies. Oil companies not only helped fund the team but recruited players with the most potential to bring pride to the small town of Wink Texas. A very clever way to convince applicants to join the football team was to hire their fathers or family members to work with oil companies in Wink. Unfortunately we are out of time. We couldn’t get to the drastic change in divorce