TALES of REAL TEXAS HISTORY HISTORY Recognizing today the great - TopicsExpress



          

TALES of REAL TEXAS HISTORY HISTORY Recognizing today the great Adina De Zavala, the granddaughter of Lorenzo De Zavala, the first Vice-President of the Republic of TEXAS, and who in 1908, barricaded herself in the Alamo Long Barracks to prevent them from being demolished, to fight what she referred to as a greed proposal….this diminutive school teacher pulled an occupation in downtown San Anto, years before we Chicano militants thought of that tactic, and the Long Barracks were SAVED for all of us who treasure our collective TEXAS history….I was at the Alamo last year, with my childhood friend John Martinez, and I related this story to him; I think he had never heard it….Wonderful LADY, great family, she came through for all of us when something important was on the line…read her incredible story, and how she fought the DRT, who only in the more modern era have acknowledged her, by placing a historical marker in the front of the Alamo and in the garden by the Long Barracks...….en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adina_Emilia_De_Zavala#Historical_preservation_affiliations
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:43:21 +0000

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