Author: Jerome F. Weynand

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Dr. Weynand, former president of San Antonio College, has written a small gem of a book on the founding of one of San Antonio's premier educational institutions. SAC has been the major gateway for many students to pass through on their way to completing their higher education and establishing successful careers. Covers Beginnings,The University Junior College, San Antonio Junior College,The Failed Election of 1941, Creation of the Junior College District, San Antonio College Moves "Uptown," Old Doctrine " Separate but Equal..." is Overcome, and President Wayland P. Moody Succeeds Loftin. Illustrated Annivsersary edition. Boerne, 2002 Adrome House 1st Ed., 227 Pgs., 5&1/2 x 8&1/2, PB

Author: Jerelyne Castleberry Williams

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George W. Brackenridge was a great benefactor to San Antonio but most persons do not realize that he was great advocate of universal education and ahead of his time also in the support of women's rights. This is the story of a group of Colored people who came forward to petition for more schools for their children. Through self-determination strategies powered by agency and cultural capital, these literacy warriors stepped forward to stake their claim for equality in litercy. Brackenridge moves in and out of the events centered on board decisions for learning facilities. Signed by the author who retired in 1994 as an educator in the public school system after 36 years of service. Illustrated. Bloomington, IN, 2006 Authorhouse, 1st Ed., 6 x 9, 334 Pgs., PB.

Author: Bill Wright, et al

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With E. John Gesick, Jr. The latest in author Wright's photographic study on American Indian Tribes in Texas. Historian John Gesick contributes an historical essay that tells the story of the tribe's migration from the woodlands of the northeast to the deserts of Texas and Northern Coahuila. The authors followed the Kickapoo during the summer they worked as migrant workers and to their sacred homeland of Nacimiento, Coahuila where they still live in traditional wickiups and practice the religion of their forefathers. Illustrated. El Paso, 1996 Texas Western Press 1st Ed., 196 Pgs., 9 & 1/2 x 12, HB