Having read friend Chris Tomlinson's "Forget the Alamo," I wish Kate Rogers had fought to stay on as executive director of the Alamo Trust rather than resigning. It's all part of larger battles over Texas history and culture inside and outside of academia.
The TSTA Blog wants the full story of the Alamo to be told. And this is why Rogers had legal standing to fight:
At present, the state General Land Office is custodian of the Alamo site, but it is operated by a nonprofit, the Alamo Trust, through a contract. An agreement between the Land Office, the Alamo Trust and the city of San Antonio calls for the new Alamo project to include Indigenous, Mexican, Tejano and Black perspectives, but state Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham seems to have lost her copy of the deal.
There you go.
I know that's not easy, but per that second link, not fighting is what got us to this point.
Update, Nov. 20: Rogers is suing Patrick and Buckingham, per Chris Tomlinson, because they killed her severance pay deal after she talked to Texas Monthly. And, the suit is in federal court, not state. Tomlinson also calls out Buckingham for a steaming shitload of hypocrisy.
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