Texas Slowly Making Strides To Recognize Tejano History
Every good Texas child learns about Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie dying heroically at the Alamo and, of course, about the "Father of Texas," Stephen F. Austin.
But few know that only two native Texans signed the Lone Star State's Declaration of Independence, and they weren't Anglos. The rest of the signers were immigrants.
Yet both of these Texans are often left out of the Lone Star State's history books, a sad point Sylvia Navarro Tillotson has set out to remedy.
Her great-great-great grandfather is José Antonio Navarro, a San Antonio native who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence and helped write the Texas Constitution, though he spoke no English.
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