Jermaine Thibodeaux
@drconvictsandcane.bsky.social
Historian of convict labor/prisons, Black Texas, U.S. History! Assistant professor in a red state. 🥴 Writing a book that explores the significance of sugar and Black convict labor and the shaping of the Texas prison farm model. The House that Cane Built!!
OTD: April 3, 1911: President William Howard Taft expels an all-Black calvary unit from San Antonio for protesting racial segregation. Local officials claimed the soldiers threatened “law and order” by protesting Jim Crow. 👀 #BlackTexasHistory #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory
April 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
OTD: April 3, 1911: President William Howard Taft expels an all-Black calvary unit from San Antonio for protesting racial segregation. Local officials claimed the soldiers threatened “law and order” by protesting Jim Crow. 👀 #BlackTexasHistory #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory