In 1928, 20-year-old Lyndon B. Johnson took a break from his studies at San Marcos Teachers College, now Texas State University, and accepted a teaching job at Welhausen School to help cover his tuition expenses. He was one of five teachers and taught mathematics and history to 29 fifth...
Texas administered the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness to high school students. These figures display how well the school as a whole performed in reading, mathematics, and science. 100% 75% 50% 25% 0 100% 75% 50% 25% 0 10 30 40 28...
•On Aug. 24, the LBJ Museum of San Marcos, which focuses on LBJ's formative years, opens Texas State University's Remembering LBJ and His Legacy: Local Recollections. •On Aug. 27, the LBJ National Historical Park on the LBJ Ranch in Johnson City opens his office in the Texas White...
President Johnson attended Southwest Texas State Teachers College – now Texas State University – in San Marcos. Here, he honed his political skills and developed a strong commitment to civil rights, education, and eliminating poverty. Nor did he ever forget these Hill Country roots. President Joh...
LBJ Museum Manager Debby Butler said the new voting exhibit covers the entire history of voting rights in this country, including when the locally beloved Johnson, an alumni of Texas State University, signed the Voting Rights Act in the mid-1960s Butler said she thinks it’s important that pe...
Austin Police are working to keep students safe and help them make good decisions on prom night. 18 year old Natali Zarate has big plans this Saturday night. She and her LBJHigh Schoolclassmates are going to prom. "We also do have plans for an after party,"she said. ...
Johnson ran as an anti-civil rights candidate yet actively worked for Afro-American voter support throughout the state. The interaction with Texas Afro-Americans in their early years of participation in the Democratic primary process sheds light on Johnson's attitudes toward minorities during the ...
Back in Texas, he was Richard Nixon. Mr. Caro said his feelings about Mr. Johnson have always been "mixed." So have mine. As this book opens, Johnson is the big, bullying Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate, the most powerful figure that office has ever known, and he is ...
Malcolm Wallace was born and educated in Texas. He was an intelligent man who graduated from the University of Texas and was quickly recruited by Lyndon Johnson and given a job at the Federal Department of Agriculture. He first came to the attention of authorities when he was arrested in 1951...
I walked out of this room yesterday and looked at the sea of faces and I thought how proud Thurgood Marshall must be. I first met him when he came here on behalf of Herman Sweatt so a Black boy could come to the University of Texas and to look at this audience in this beautiful un...