Today is Thursday, February 9, 2012

Today in
Texas History

1902 - Juanita Shanks Craft, civil rights activist, was born in Round Rock, TX. Over a period of 11 years, she and Lulu Belle White organized 182 Texas branches of the NAACP. In 1944, she became the first black woman to vote in Dallas County.


Texas Quote

Give me an army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies, and I'll win the war. - U.S. General George S. Patton


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