I was today years old when I learned that Fort Worth had a Chinatown in the early 1900s ? (“Chinatown in Mourning” – @dallasnews, August 19, 1907) #TexasHistory #AsianAmericanHistory “… the Chinese residents of the Panther city” (@startelegram, March 6, 1906) “Fort Worth has a Chinese population of fifty persons.” (@startelegram, August…
A Brief History of Racism in Southlake
A brief history of racism in #Southlake @Carrollisd ? #flashbackfriday #texashistory #HB3979 “By the 1860s, there were lots of things around here for settlers to fight- illness, insects, hardship, Comanche Indians, and starting in 1861, the Yankees.” (Images of America: Southlake by Connie Cooley and the Southlake Historical Society) Early Southlake settler…