Family legacies and the stateās Jim Crow past underlie a fight over mineral rights on a stretch of South Texas scrubland
Read full article: Family legacies and the stateās Jim Crow past underlie a fight over mineral rights on a stretch of South Texas scrublandDescendants of a prominent white family and a formerly enslaved couple are fighting over ownership ā and the oil and gas royalties that would come with it ā of an 147.5-acre tract that has bound and divided generations of their families.