Instructor E-Sources PowerPoint

1
Instructor E-SourcesPowerPoint Presentation
Chapter 13The Emergence of Modern Texas
Politics

• The History of Texas
• Harlan Davidson, Inc.

2
Learning Outcomes (13)

• Understand the intricacies of Texas politics
• be knowledgeable about the impact that Texans
  have had on the national level
• appreciate the significance of the
  Johnson-Connally era in state/national politics
• comprehend the factors contributing to Texas
  becoming a two-party state in the 1970s.

3
Chapter 13 The Emergence of Modern Texas
Politics

• Urbanization new problems, new values
• Minorities feminist voices
• The Republican Party in Texas
• New political conflicts
• The Politics of Beauford Jester
• The Texas Establishment
• Legislative stalemate
• Democrats divide, the 1948 election
• Box 13 and Landslide Lyndon

4
The Emergence of Modern Texas Politics

• Alan Shivers the Political Battles of the 1950s
• Legislative reorganization how about a budget?
• Power shifts Lt. Gov House speaker
• A call for reform
• The Goat Speech
• Redistricting
• Taxes again Shivers says one thing, legislature
  says another
• And the U.S. Supreme Court said yet something
  else
• The tidelands controversy oil the key
• The Shivercrats Eisenhower Democrats

5
The Emergence of Modern Texas Politics

• Texas Politics in the Eisenhower years
• McCarthyism
• Shivers vs. Yarborough
• Scandals in the insurance industry
• Commies in Port Arthur? Maybe
• The Port Arthur Story
• Desegregation
• Mansfield
• Denial of funds to integrated schools
• Veterans Land Board Scandal
• Bascom Giles
• Ken Towery and the Cuero Record

6
The Emergence of Modern Texas Politics

• Governor Daniel Into the 1960s
• Divided Democrats liberal moderate
• Legislative battles
• Taxation issues the first state sales tax
• Water resources
• Army Corps of Engineers
• Dams A, B and C
• Toledo Bend and Sam Rayburn
• Legislating ethics
• A Johnson Connally decade
• Election of 1960 South Texas again
• LB J runs twice
• The emergence of John Tower?
• The Texas Republican Party
• Texas under Connally
• Economic growth
• Active government

Sen. John Tower
7
The Emergence of Modern Texas Politics

• The Johnson Presidency
• Temporary Democrat unity
• The Great Society
• The Vietnam War
• Conservative Triumph the 1968 election
• Texas Democrats sever southern connection
• Conservative Democrats oust Sen. Yarborough

8
The Emergence of Modern Texas Politics

• Challenges to the White Male Elite
• Federal intervention
• Court ordered redistricting
• 24th Amendment
• 1965 Voting Rights Act
• The Civil Rights Crusade
• Black Texans
• Political emergence of black Texans
• Voting restrictions attacked
• Challenging segregated institutions
• Overturning Jim Crow
• Backlash

Barbara Jordan, U.S Rep. 18th Congressional
District of Texas
9
The Emergence of Modern Texas Politics

• The Civil Rights Crusade
• Texas Mexicans
• Political activism movimiento
• Grass roots movements
• Political Association of Spanish-speaking
  Organizations (PASO)
• Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
  (MALDEF)
• Raza Unida
• Texas Women
• The rise of feminism
• Texas Womens Political Caucus
• ERA fails

10
The Emergence of Modern Texas Politics

• Sharpstown End of an Era
• Gov. Preston Smiths west Texas base
• Conservative philosophy, rural values
• Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, rising star
• Scandal rocks Texas politics
• Security Exchange Commission probe
• Sharpstown watershed
• torpedoed Barnes political career
• groundswell for reform proved short-lived
• New Open politics does not arrive

11
Key Words Terms (13)

• Box 13 
• Smith v. Allright
• Roe v. Wade 
• Lyndon Baines Johnson 
• John Connally 
• Sam Rayburn
• Allan Shivers 
• "Goat Speech" 
• Ralph Yarborough 
• "Viva Kennedy" clubs
• John Tower

• Baker v. Carr
• Reynolds v. Sims
• Good Government League San Antonio
• Barbara Jordan
• PASO (Political Association of Spanish-speaking
  Organizations)
• "chicano" movement
• Ramsey Muniz
• Frances (Sissy) Farenthold