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History students from Texas A&M University-Kingsville will present their research on the history of the City of Bishop during a symposium from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, April 21, in the Mi Familia Gallery at the John E. Conner Museum, 905 W. Santa Gertrudis Ave.

SCHEDULE

Welcome and Introduction

Dr. Dean T. Ferguson

Panel A

Bishop and its History: The Land and its Changing Hands

9:15-10:30 a.m.

Matthew L. Medley from Harlingen: Bishop, Texas: The North Nueces Strip Farming Experiment;

Joseph Stornello from Katy: From a Spanish Land Grant to a Model Farm Town: Land

Ownership and its Significance in Bishop, Texas; 

Commentary: Dr. Ferguson
 

Panel B 

German Settlement, Migrant Labor, and Anti-Hispanic Discrimination

10:45 a.m.-noon 

Jenna Baker from Orange Grove: The Bishop German Community: From Isolation to Assimilation, 1910-1930;

Robert Luera from Beeville: The Migrant Machine: The Lives of the Mexican Labor Force in Bishop Texas, 1920-1930;

Abel Hinojosa from Rancho Viejo: Anti-Hispanic Discrimination in Bishop, Texas (1910-1940);

Commentary:  Dr. Shannon Baker, Associate Vice President for Student Success and history professor, Texas A&M-Kingsville

Lunch will be provided

Panel C

The Klan, the “Great Bank Robbery,” and Bishop at War, 1918-1945

1-2:15 p.m.    

            Matthew Almaraz from Kingsville: Not Brave Men but Cowards: The Ku Klux in Bishop, Texas, 1918-1926;

           James Gates from Corpus Christi: The Great Bishop Bank Robbery of 1934;

           Jacob Lee from Riviera: A Small Town at War: Bishop, Texas 1941-1945;

           Commentary: Dr. Roger Tuller, history professor, Texas A&M-Kingsville

Panel D

Women’s Associations and School Reform

2:30-3:45 p.m.           

            Mariah Mercado from Kingsville: Canning, Mattresses, and National Defense: From Penny-Pinching to Consumerism in the Women’s Home Demonstration Club, Bishop, Texas 1930-1950;

Melissa Diaz from Alice: The Evolution of Racially Integrated Bishop Independent       School District from 1911-1960;

Linda Dixon from Corpus Christi: A Time for Tea, Floral Arrangements, and Civic Activism: The Bishop Women’s History Club;

Commentary: Dr. Alberto Rodriguez, history associate professor, Texas A&M-Kingsville

Closing Remarks: Dr. Ferguson