I found a lot of unexpected material in that Fondren Library scrapbook I mentioned the other day but none more unexpected than this letter from Eleanor Roosevelt:
This clipping was next to it:
But a better explanation is in this post from 2014 about her visit to the library.
Bonus: It is absolute, full fledged spring on campus. It’s just beautiful.
It’s not an unmixed blessing, though. The oak pollen is already pretty thick.
Minute Women? I had never heard of such a group, so I checked on Wikipedia. Scary stuff.
There is an excellent book by Don E. Carleton titled: Red Scare!: Right-Wing Hysteria Fifties Fanaticism and Their Legacy in Texas, published by Texas Monthly Press in 1985. It documents exactly this period, when anti-communist hysteria gripped the HISD board and society in Houston in general. Fascinating, and indeed scary.