‘This tale is far from perfect’: Controversial ‘1836 Project’ tackles Texas’ complex history with race
Jason Lopez, 38, picks up his four-month-old son, Lucca, as they pose for photo with his wife, Jashira De Leon, 39, second from right, and Jessica Velasquez, 29, in front of the neon Texas flag for a photo at the Institute of Texan Cultures on Sept. 16, 2021. A proposed 15-page brochure summarizing the history of Texas would be given to people receiving driver’s licenses in the Lone Star State — if funding is approved by the Legislature.
Critics predicted a committee — appointed by Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dade Phelan, the state’s top Republicans and formed to write a handout for people receiving new Texas driver’s licenses — would omit historical controversies, racial unrest and social and economic disparities in the brochure.approved by the committee last week uses some form of the word “slave” 11 times. All 15 pages of the document are posted on the Texas Education Agency website.
“This is not a chronicle or the last word on Texas history. But perhaps this is a first word on the Texas story that many people will have heard,” said history scholar Don Frazier, director of the Texas Center at Schreiner University in Kerrville and chair of a subcommittee that guided the text through six iterations.
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