Download or read book Building a Business in the Bayou City written by Meredith Lee May and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of women in post-World War II America often focuses on conformity and a retrenchment of gender roles. Recent histories have complicated the portrait of women in postwar America, noting their participation in labor and civil rights. In order to add to the understanding of the opportunities and limits on women in the latter-half of the twentieth-century, this dissertation analyzes female business owners in Houston from 1945 to 1977. I contend that business ownership allowed post-World War II American women another option to the traditional choices of working in a low-paying pink-collar job or attending solely to domestic responsibilities. I also highlight the overlapping limitations placed on women from differing racial, social, ethnic, and economic backgrounds. I argue that due to early efforts at self-help and organization spearheaded by business owners, by the time the mainstream feminist movement reached Houston in the late 1960s, Houstonian women proved among the most active and most organized in the nation. For that reason, organizers chose Houston as the site for the National Women's Conference in 1977. Thus, a study of Houston's female business population has broader implications for the history of the women's rights movement.

Download or read book Report written by Texas. Secretary of State and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biennial Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biennial Report written by Texas. Secretary of State and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas written by Texas. Secretary of State and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Enduring Legacy written by William Henry Kellar and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of Houston stands the Texas Medical Center. This dense complex of educational, clinical, and hospital facilities offers state-of-the-art patient care, basic science, and applied research in more than fifty medicine-related institutions. Three medical schools, four schools of nursing, and schools of dentistry, public health, and pharmacology occupy the thousand-acre campus. But none of this would exist if not for the generosity and vision of Monroe Dunaway Anderson, who, in 1936, established the foundation that bears his name. The M. D. Anderson Foundation ultimately became the driving force behind creating and shaping this leading-edge medical complex into what it is today. Enduring Legacy: The M. D. Anderson Foundation and the Texas Medical Center provides a unique perspective on the indispensable role the foundation played in the creation of the Texas Medical Center. It also offers a case study of how public and private institutions worked together to create this veritable city of health that has since become the largest medical complex in human history. Historian William Henry Kellar caps off a decade of research on institutions and characters associated with the Texas Medical Center. He draws on oral histories, extensive archival work, and a growing secondary literature to provide an absorbing account of this leading institution of modern medicine and the philanthropy that made it possible.

Download or read book The Movers written by Nancy Niblack Baxter and published by Emmis Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book in the Heartland Chronicles series tells the story of the real-life McClure family and their 1750s journey from Ireland to Pennsylvania, to Kentucky, to Indiana.

Download or read book Houston the Bayou City written by David G. McComb and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Houston Bound written by Tyina L. Steptoe and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning after World War I, Houston was transformed from a black-and-white frontier town into one of the most ethnically and racially diverse urban areas in the United States. Houston Bound draws on social and cultural history to show how, despite Anglo attempts to fix racial categories through Jim Crow laws, converging migrations—particularly those of Mexicans and Creoles—complicated ideas of blackness and whiteness and introduced different understandings about race. This migration history also uses music and sound to examine these racial complexities, tracing the emergence of Houston's blues and jazz scenes in the 1920s as well as the hybrid forms of these genres that arose when migrants forged shared social space and carved out new communities and politics. This interdisciplinary book provides both an innovative historiography about migration and immigration in the twentieth century and a critical examination of a city located in the former Confederacy.

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Download or read book Unprecedented Power written by Steven Fenberg and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this poignant and timely biography, Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism and the Common Good shows how the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) saved the United States economy during the Great Depression and militarized industry in time to win World War II. RFC strategies and Jesse Jones’s approaches can be adapted now to address the impacts of the new coronavirus and climate change. President Herbert Hoover had established the RFC in 1932 to make loans to banks, railroads and insurance companies and appointed Jesse Jones—Houston’s preeminent developer and a former finance chair of the Democratic National Committee—to the bi-partisan board. With clear implications today, Jones complained the RFC was slow and a year late and said if it had judiciously loaned five to seven billion dollars in 1931 and ’32, economic collapse would have been prevented. Soon after his inauguration, President Franklin Roosevelt supercharged the RFC, made Jones chair and the government agency began buying preferred stock in banks to stabilize and help them lend again. Jones knew capital rather than debt was needed to save the banks and revive the flow of credit, just as it was when the program was duplicated in 2008 as the Troubled Asset Relief Program, better known as TARP. Under Jones’s leadership, the RFC became the largest investor in the nation and rescued banks, businesses, homes and farms; saved the railroads; rebuilt communities after environmental calamities; built bridges, dams and aqueducts across the nation; and brought electricity and appliances to rural America. The RFC helped people and saved businesses during the Great Depression through judicious lending, not spending, and remarkably returned a profit to the government and its taxpayers. As war spread, Jones and FDR shifted the RFC’s focus from domestic economics to global defense. In its second cover story about Jones, TIME magazine reported, “In all the U.S. today there is only one man whose power is greater: Franklin Roosevelt … The President knows Congress will give more to Jones without debate than he can get after a fight … Emperor Jones is the greatest lender of all time.” Accordingly, after Germany’s European victories, Congress on June 25, 1940, gave Jones and the RFC the authority to build, buy and lease plants to develop and manufacture metals, ships, airplanes, tanks and guns; to train aviators; and, with FDR’s approval, to do anything required to arm the Allied Forces. Almost half of its outsized investments went to corporations to help convert their production to war-time needs. One of its largest new plants—the Dodge-Chicago plant—covered 145 acres and took in raw metal at one end and produced finished airplane engines at the other. Like all its new factories, the plant was built and owned by the federal government’s RFC, leased to corporations to operate and sold to private interests after the war. Likewise, coordinated national large-scale efforts and government investments can be made to address today’s daunting challenges. Unprecedented Power dramatically describes how Jesse Jones and the RFC used every option to save life, democracy and capitalism during two of the 20th century’s most threatening events. Unprecedented Power provides models for today by looking at successes from the past.

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Download or read book American Comeback written by Jim Bickford and published by Jim Bickford. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Culture in the American Southwest written by Keith L. Bryant and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the Southwest is known for its distinctive regional culture, it is not only the indigenous influences that make it so. As Anglo Americans moved into the territories of the greater Southwest, they brought with them a desire to reestablish the highest culture of their former homes: opera, painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature. But their inherited culture was altered, challenged, and reshaped by Native American and Hispanic peoples, and a new, vibrant cultural life resulted. From Houston to Los Angeles, from Tulsa to Tucson, Keith L. Bryant traces the development of "high culture" in the Southwest. Humans create culture, but in the Southwest, Bryant argues, the land itself has also influenced that creation. "Incredible light, natural grandeur, . . . and a geography at once beautiful and yet brutal molded societies that sprang from unique cultural sources." The peoples of the American Southwest share a regional consciousness—an experience of place—that has helped to create a unified, but not homogenized, Southwestern culture. Bryant also examines a paradox of Southwestern cultural life. Southwesterners take pride in their cultural distinctiveness, yet they struggled to win recognition for their achievements in "high culture." A dynamic tension between those seeking to re-create a Western European culture and those desiring one based on regional themes and resources continues to stimulate creativity. Decade by decade and city by city, Bryant charts the growth of cultural institutions and patronage as he describes the contributions of artists and performers and of the elites who support them. Bryant focuses on the significant role women played as leaders in the formation of cultural institutions and as writers, artists, and musicians. The text is enhanced by more than fifty photographs depicting the interplay between the people and the land and the culture that has resulted.

Download or read book The Tradesman written by John E. MacGowan and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Marmac Guide to Houston and Galveston written by Kearney, Syd and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Houston has enjoyed unprecedented growth in its development into an increasingly international business center, coastal Galveston retains the history and charm of its past. Business travelers to both cities and new residents of the area will enjoy the sites, restaurants, accommodations, and other features listed in this new edition. Attractions include AstroWorld, the Astrodome, the Museum of Print History and Graphic Art, NASA Space Center, the Port of Houston, Sam Houston Memorial Park, and more. This volume provides self-guided walking tours to the major attractions and detailed information on dozens of activities. Helpful information on historical districts plus a list of attractions, maps, photos, and charts can help make a visit more enjoyable.