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How Fort Worth and Texas seceded from the South, or did we?
The second day the Star-Telegram carried the phrase “Where the West Begins” also included news of a Klan riot. Star-Telegram archives
To us, Selma was far away, someplace where white Christians fought black Christians in grainy TV news images.
We never imagined that Lancaster Avenue and Division Street were on the same U.S. 80 highway that led east to Selma and Montgomery, Ala., or that anything happening in those ugly scenes from the South might ever happen in Fort Worth.
Turns out our “Where the West Begins” pride also taught us to look away from Dixieland.
As America marks 50 years since the courageous march in Selma, Texas scholars say our state’s Western identity was crafted in part to downplay a history of Confederate secession and slavery.
Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/bud-kennedy/article12946790.html
