Agricultural crisis in Texas Archives - People's History in Texas https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/uncategorized/agricultural-crisis-in-texas/ Fri, 22 Sep 2023 02:47:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-logo-32x32.png Agricultural crisis in Texas Archives - People's History in Texas https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/uncategorized/agricultural-crisis-in-texas/ 32 32 Doug Zabel https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/doug-zabel/ Fri, 22 Sep 2023 02:36:25 +0000 https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/?page_id=2959 β€œIn β€˜79, Jim [Hightower] came in and hired us to do his advertising, all that stuff was for the Railroad Commission race in β€˜80… (H)e ran against Jim Nugent, otherwise known as The Snake, on the Texas Railroad Commission. And Hightower got 49 percent, almost won, and it was probably the best thing that ever happened to him because he […]

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]]> PHIT New Project https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/phit-new-project/ https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/phit-new-project/#respond Mon, 20 Apr 2020 10:27:14 +0000 https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/?p=676 Hightower Campaign Poster   The Hightower Years Farms on Fire The Texas Camelot PHIT is beginning a new oral history project.  The project title is still a work in progress, but the subject matter is pretty solid.  We are collecting participant stories on the impact that the Texas Department of Agriculture made on state and national policies during the years […]

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