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Billboard Reading “Take Part Today in Austin Tomorrow”
Black-and-white photograph of a billboard reading “Take part today in AustinTomorrow,” printed near the end of Austin Tomorrow: Neighborhood Guidelines, a City of Austin Department of Planning report from August 1974. The report uses Fairview and…
1935 Residential Securities Map, Austin
Residential security map of Austin, Texas. Residential neighborhoods were graded from A to D (“best” to “hazardous”) "A" districts, colored green on the map, indicated that mortgage lenders should consider this area “safe” and low-risk for loans,…
Title Page, Table of Contents, and Introduction to the 1928 City Plan For Austin, Texas
Pages from the Koch & Fowler 1928 City Plan for Austin, which was commissioned by the city to plan for future development. The text goes on to explain the history of the creation of the plan and encourages the city government to work with officials…
Population and Housing Statistics for Census Tracts: Austin, Texas, 1940
This item shows population and housing data statistics for the city of Austin collected from the 1940 Census.
Contents
Map of city by census tracts. (Page IV)
General: Historical background, Definition of a census tract, Suburban tracts, Uses…
Contents
Map of city by census tracts. (Page IV)
General: Historical background, Definition of a census tract, Suburban tracts, Uses…
The Daily Texan, Wednesday, April 26, 1967
This edition of The Daily Texan, the student publication of the University of Texas at Austin, features events of campus protests and disciplinary measures against student activists during April 1967. The story on the front page covers the…
Mailed Document Addressed to Lt. Gerding of Austin Police Department, UT Committee to End the War in Vietnam (CEWV)
This document, addressed to Austin Police Department Lieutenant Bert Gerding, appears within the Student Mobilization Committee (SMC) files and reflects not only the monitoring of student activists during the Vietnam War era but also students’…
Pages 71 and 72 of the 1928 Austin City Plan
Two pages taken from the Koch & Fowler 1928 City Plan for Austin. The plan argues that, to cut down on the cost of building "separate but equal” facilities throughout the city, Black residents should be “encouraged” to move to a single area in East…
Nonwhite households by blocks for Austin, Texas, 1940
Map of Austin dwelling units shaded by racial makeup. “Nonwhite” was a category used by the 1940 Census that included Black people and people with African, Native American, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Indian, or Korean ancestry.
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Tish Hinojosa “Hispanic sings of life on the border.”
This newspaper article describes Tish Hinojosa and her album Homeland as an advertisement for her performance at the West Fest 1989 in Copper Mountain, Colorado. They speak about Homeland being a modern acoustic masterpiece, from the perspective of…
