Gallery of Stars Archives - People's History in Texas https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/topics/gallery-of-stars/ Tue, 25 Apr 2023 16:04:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-logo-32x32.png Gallery of Stars Archives - People's History in Texas https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/topics/gallery-of-stars/ 32 32 Cather Woods https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/cather-woods/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:17:10 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?page_id=2617 “Jim Hightower was one of the best things for Texas in my experience, in my lifetime, and I’m 78 years old. So, I started working with farmers during that era. He was really nice. He worked hard to make sure that he made it better for blacks. By making sure that you knew what was there, by reaching out to […]

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]]> Ellen Widess https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/ellen-widess/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:14:58 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?page_id=2613 “One of the provisions they (the Trump-era EPA) wanted to get rid of was the farmworkers’ right to have their doctors, or any other advocate, a lawyer, priest, worker center, anybody, union, get access to their pesticide safety sheets to know what they were exposed to, what the risks were and to be able to go after the company and […]

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]]> Andy Welch https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/andy-welch/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:13:29 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?page_id=2609 “I think you could take that eight years, and set it over here and say, This is unlike anything else. I don’t know of anybody that talked about farm worker safety before that. I don’t know of anybody that talked about organizing farmer cooperatives like that. Yes, there were cooperatives, but they were for farmers to gin their cotton or […]

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]]> Sarah Vogel https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/sarah-vogel/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:11:47 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?page_id=2605 “It made such a difference to me to have Jim Hightower and Jim Nichols (Minnesota Secretary of Agriculture) out front, articulating these issues so beautifully and showing their vision was possible and starting these different programs. In North Dakota, my campaign, I had a long list of campaign commitments, things that I was going to do if elected. I nicked […]

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]]> John Vlcek (D) https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/john-vlcek-d/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:09:40 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?page_id=2601 John Vlcek was recruited to run the direct marketing program. He and his staff successfully opened 125 new farmers markets, promoted farmer cooperatives such as the Hempstead Watermelon Coop, and connected small farmers upscale restaurants. John went on to become Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture and was instrumental in the adoption of statewide and then national organic standards.The promotion to Assistant […]

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]]> Gus Townes https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/gus-townes/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:08:25 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?page_id=2598 “A lot of these towns were drying up. They didn’t have anything in them, not even a farmers market. So our strategy was to try to revive rural towns using farmers markets…The first one I had Leroy [Biggers] put together. When we got there, that farmers market only sold roses. That’s a big rose-growing area up around Tyler. So that […]

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]]> Judy Smith https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/judy-smith/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:05:36 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?page_id=2594 “I see ourselves as the mentors or witnesses, I think it’s really wonderful we can talk about what it’s like. And remind women, I mean I see our role really is reminding women, what it was like, if Roe v Wade gets overturned. But I really do think that this is an entire generation of women who don’t understand this, […]

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]]> Brigid Shea https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/brigid-shea/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:04:15 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?page_id=2589 “The (Clean Water Action) canvass had a unique ability to literally be this foot soldier army that could go out door-to-door and reach people who may not show up elsewhere, but who really agreed with the idea of better protections for the environment, and eliminating excessive use of pesticides that were poisoning people, and making opportunities for organic farmers to […]

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]]> Freddie Richards https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/freddie-richards/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:02:30 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?page_id=2585 “Initially, the (Texas Agricultural Finance Authority) program funded people who wanted to take ag from production to processing and marketing, from the commodity production side to the processing side. Then we tried to help people who wanted to fund specialty projects that included viticulture, bees and deer and Christmas trees which were also considered to be agricultural diversification. Not 100 […]

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]]> Alfred L. Parks https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/alfred-l-parks/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:01:08 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?page_id=2581 “We had a guy that came in from the Dallas area. He had no farming background, but he had married into a family that’s local here… “My family has land not far from Prairie View, and we want to get into watermelons.” He created a supply chain. What he had done was go out and develop some markets with Luby’s. […]

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