Henry Martyn Robert of Robert’s Rules of Order fame was a civil engineer who helped design the jetties and seawall in #Galveston. #GalvestonTexas#TexasHistory
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“…Texas as we know it exists only because of slave labor. Southerners—and most Texians that came from the South—wouldn’t immigrate to Texas without it.
Thousands didn’t, in fact, worried that the Mexican government’s ingrained opposition to slavery put their “property” at risk. For Mexicans, newly freed from Spanish oppression, abolishing slavery was a moral issue.”
In June of 1959, recently elected District Judge William Sears McGee (1917 - 2006) selected the first all-woman jury in the Harris County Civil Courts.
According to a June 1959 Houston Chronicle article:
"Attorneys took one look at Harris County's first all-woman jury, had a hurried hudle with Judge Sears McGee and settled the case." 🤣