Word: cotulla
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...country were deployed to seek out and interview teachers, professors and fellow students of Lyndon Johnson. Houston Bureau Chief Ben Gate made the Texas rounds, interviewed the President's former teachers in grammar school, high school and college, and spent a day talking with the citizens of Cotulla, 70 miles from the Mexican border, where 20-year-old Lyndon Johnson taught the fifth, sixth and seventh grades for a year. A key source for the story and a key force in the education of L.B.J. Howard Mell Greene, 78-year-old retired professor of government at Southwest Texas State...
...Tired of the financial squeeze after his sophomore year, Lyndon brashly applied for a teaching job in the obscure town of Cotulla, between San Antonio and Laredo. He was named principal of a new red brick Mexican-American school, charged at the age of 20 with directing five teachers, and paid what he now terms "the magnificent, munificent salary of $125 a month." Yet those nine months in a county where the Mexican kids lived in waterless, crumbling shacks and the median education of Mexican adults is still a mere 1.4 years proved the most rewarding of Lyndon...
...first job after college was as a teacher in Cotulla, Texas, in a small Mexican-American school. My students were poor, and they often came to class without breakfast and hungry. And they knew even in their youth the pain of prejudice. They never seemed to know why people disliked them, but they knew it was so because I saw it in their eyes...