Texas History Movies

Texas History Movies was a "popular racist comic strip that ran in The Dallas Morning News in the late 1920s".[1][2] The strip had text by John Rosenfield, Jr., and pictures by Jack Patton.[3]

Book collections of the strip were published starting in 1928.[4] For decades, paperback collections of the strip were underwritten by oil companies (first Magnolia Petroleum Company and then Mobil Oil) and distributed for free to Texas schoolchildren.[2] A completely new version by "counter-cultural artist, author, and self-made historian"[4] Jack Jackson (Jaxon), entitled New Texas History Movies, was published by the Texas State Historical Association in 2007 (ISBN 978-0876112236) and won the 2008 Best Western Graphic Novel award from True West Magazine.[4][5][6] It was Jackson's last work before his death in June 2006.[7]

References
  1. Knowlton, Christopher (8 June 2021). "Two Books on the Bizarreness of Texas". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  2. "For decades, a comic book showing Texas history in the most racist ways was given to Texas students". Dallas News. 17 December 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  3. Rosenfeld, John, Jr. (1928). Texas History "Movies". Dallas, Texas: The Southland Press. p. 1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. "Texas History Movies". Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  5. Boardman, Mark (November–December 2007). "Back to the Future". True West Magazine. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  6. Rutherford, Ryan (4 May 2007). "Book Review: Readings". www.austinchronicle.com. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  7. "Texas History Movies". www.toonopedia.com. Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved 3 January 2022.


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