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Dr. Bryan Edward Stone

17 Oct, 7 tweets, 4 min read

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There are massive swaths of the Texas historical experience we would have no idea existed if Russell Lee hadn't spent so much time here.

https://twitter.com/TracesofTexas/status/1449530598041718787

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Some of my favorite Russell Lee pictures from Corpus Christi, taken in 1949. . . .

Children at Lamar School playground.

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Some of my favorite Russell Lee pictures from Corpus Christi, taken in 1949. . . .

Man studying for a night school class in a barbershop window. This one sent me to the 1949 city directory to find Memo's place.

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Some of my favorite Russell Lee pictures from Corpus Christi, taken in 1949. . . .

Corpus Christi Hooverville, 1949. This is in a part of town called North Beach, near where the Texas State Aquarium is now.

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Some of my favorite Russell Lee pictures from Corpus Christi, taken in 1949. . . .

A student in the automobile body repair and painting class at Del Mar College (my school!).

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Whoops. This one's 1939, not 1949. #editbutton

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Some of my favorite Russell Lee pictures from Corpus Christi . . .

Downtown Corpus Christi, seawall under construction, 1940.

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I'm free now to report that I was a historical consultant on this case.

I haven’t posted about this before because I was waiting for the process to play out. But now that the judge has ruled, I'd like to describe my experience.

nytimes.com/2021/10/13/us/…

It’s rare, perhaps, that a historian’s expertise can be put to such good use as this. I study a niche area, a subfield of a subfield, and I teach at a midsized community college.

I never expected to be asked to consult on something so important.

I’m a historian of the Texas Jewish community. My book, “The Chosen Folks,” is the first narrative history of this community. I've also edited a Texas-based historical memoir and published a ton of articles and reviews in the field.

utpress.utexas.edu/books/stocho

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25 Feb 20

REMINDER, Houston: I’ll be speaking at Rice University on Monday about the Galveston Immigration Movement. It’s free and open to the public, and details are below. I hope some of you might be there!

But what is the Galveston Movement? Well, keep reading.

events.rice.edu/#!view/event/e…

Between 1907 and 1914, more than 9,000 Russian-Jewish immigrants arrived in the United States through the Port of Galveston, Texas, bypassing the more familiar but badly overcrowded Jewish neighborhoods in New York.

These were Yiddish-speakers literally "fresh off the boat."

The Galveston Movement was an organized effort by national (i.e., New York) Jewish leaders to divert the growing stream of Jewish immigration from Russia away from New York and into the “American hinterland”— their endearing term for the rest of the country.

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