HIST 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: John Connally, Desegregation, Astrodome

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 226
• Professor: Dr.Buenger

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Texas history: boom, bust, and the emergence of modern texas, 1965 - 2000. Negative effect on people trying to adapt to technology. Technology is a creator of the modern world, but it is also a thing that has loss and gain and has some level of ambiguity. In a world of trouble without a college degree not true in 1965. Good options with a high school degree. Modernization brings better understanding, tolerance, lessening of bigotry, justice equality is what we like to think. This notion of ambiguity makes us actually see that in particular, there"s a greater se(cid:374)se of injustice, greater resentment, sense of inequality. The city of houston desegregated (restaurants, astrodome, etc. ) in 1960 years before other places. Just (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause te(cid:454)as desegregated earlier does(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ea(cid:374) it (cid:449)as full(cid:455) desegregated. No (cid:448)iole(cid:374)(cid:272)e, (cid:374)o (cid:373)o(cid:271)s, (cid:374)o go(cid:448)er(cid:374)or"s sta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g i(cid:374) the door, ho(cid:449)e(cid:448)er (cid:272)ertai(cid:374)l(cid:455) (cid:374)o fast movement.