From: "Gary Romeo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 5:51 AM Subject: Re: [rehfans] Howard and racism
> Most of your other examples also show that a debate > and struggle was going on in society at that time. > Blacks, mexicans, and sympathethic whites were on one > side and Howard and the (admittedly dominant) racist > paradigm were on the other. There may have been a struggle as these groups tried to sort out prejudice against them but America, even Texas is a big place, and I'm not sure we know how much of this Howard heard or absorbed. The earlier struggles you mentioned in the Houston and Brownsville area were a 2 day journey from Cross Plains, and an area that Howard never visited as far as I know. Even in 1930, I would surmise that most news was locally reported, and only the exceptional stuff drifted into the bigger cities, or got distributed nationally. In order to make your case, you would have to prove that the papers available to Howard in CP carried news of these events. Despite that, you still have to factor in whether in some areas people even cared about what was going on in other parts of the country. Except for national policies, most things didn't affect life in Cross Plains. Scotty Henderson
