Jim Hightower Archives - People's History in Texas https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/uncategorized/jim-hightower/ Tue, 25 Apr 2023 16:05:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-logo-32x32.png Jim Hightower Archives - People's History in Texas https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/uncategorized/jim-hightower/ 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> Jesse Oliver https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/jesse-oliver/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 07:59:36 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?page_id=2577 “(O)ne of my first formal relationships with agriculture was at the Black Farmers Conferences and getting some history of what was going on with them and what had transpired…The few who held on, who actually worked the land and stayed there, were still facing difficult times, mistreatment by USDA, especially with respect to support farm loans, crop loans, crop insurance, […]

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]]> Pauline Medrano https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/pauline-medrano/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 07:52:49 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?page_id=2562 “We went door-to-door into the different neighborhoods and found out neighborhood associations, PTAs, we promoted them however we could. It was grassroots. It was churches, PTAs, neighborhood associations, neighborhood groups. We’d say, ‘We want to start a farmers market. What would be a good day? What would be a good morning?’ Olmos Park (San Antonio) said, Monday morning. And that’s […]

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]]> Demetrius McDaniel https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/demetrius-mcdaniel/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 07:51:15 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?page_id=2559 “I put together the Black Farmer Conference. That was my doing, that was my first big assignment that Hightower gave me…. Hightower says “I want the title to be Improving the Future of Texas Black Farmers.” He said we don’t want to rehash the past, we want to talk about how we have helped Black farmers to maintain land, and […]

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]]> Mack Martinez https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/mack-martinez/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 07:44:30 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?page_id=2548 “I think Hightower has pushed and has made some headway, it’s an ‘us’ issue. Until we’ve all crossed that line, until we’re all equal, ain’t none of us equal. I think that came across, and that’s why he was respected by African American leaders and by Hispanic leaders. It wasn’t an accident that John Vlcek also happened to be gay. […]

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]]> Jim Marston https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/jim-marston/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 07:42:29 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?page_id=2544 “Hiring an openly gay guy to do important work and interact with folks – it’s kind of a statement that the Department of Agriculture hadn’t had before. Our state government was generally very white, male, straight but the Ag Department was really that way. We started hiring people who didn’t go to Texas A&M. That was a shock to many, […]

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]]> Thressa Lockridge-Ali https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/thressa-lockridge-ali/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 07:38:56 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?page_id=2535 “The story of the Department is really a big story. Before (Jim) Hightower took over, that agency was pretty white. There weren’t very many minorities in that agency and that’s one of the things that was a real concern to Hightower…I feel like, if you have a more diverse department, then you have a better department, because you have a […]

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