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Tomlinson Hill

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by Chris Tomlinson

typhoid fever

  Union Army, U.S.

  Unionist Party

  Reconstruction by

  United Confederate Veterans, Marlin

  United Daughters of the Confederacy

  University of California-San Diego

  University of Texas, Austin

  Urban Cowboy (movie)

  U.S. Census

  U.S. Department of Agriculture

  U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

  USS Theodore Roosevelt

  U.S. Supreme Court

  Veterans Administration, U.S.

  Voice of America

  voting

  intimidation/obstruction

  in primary elections

  taxes charged for

  Voyager (spacecraft)

  Waco Daily News

  Waco, Texas

  Boys and Girls Clubs of

  KKK in

  Pop Warner in

  Waco Tribune Herald

  Wade, Harless

  Wainwright, Jonathan M.

  Walker, Edwin

  Wallace, George

  Ward, Emma Sorillas

  Ward, John

  Ward, Nathan

  Ward, Robert D.

  Washington, Booker T.

  Wasson, Alonzo

  Watkins, John W.

  Webb, Tom

  Weber, Reverend

  Welle, Gus

  Wesley, Vernon

  West, Decca Lamar

  Westfield (Union boat)

  Wheat Ridge, Colorado

  Whig Party

  whitecapping

  White, John

  White, Lizzie Mae Tomlinson

  White, Warren T.

  White, Winston

  Wigfall, Louis

  Wiley College, Marshall

  Willard, Jess

  Williams, Berry

  Williams, Hannah

  Williams, J. C.

  Williams, L. K.

  Williams, Nelson

  Williams, Ray

  Wilson, Teddy

  Wilson, Woodrow

  Women of the Ku Klux Klan

  Women’s Christian Temperance Union

  Wood, George Rodgers

  Woodrow Wilson High School, Dallas

  Woodson, Sammy

  Work Progress Administration (WPA)

  World War I (WWI)

  World War II (WWII)

  Wyman, Charles

  Wyman, Frank

  Yeager, Mike

  Yellow Bayou, Louisiana

  yellow fever

  The Yokohama Maid

  Young, Horace

  Zaire

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  CHRIS TOMLINSON grew up in Dallas and became a reporter in 1994. He covered the end of Apartheid in South Africa and has reported from fifty countries and nine war zones, including Rwanda, Somalia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He now lives in Austin with his wife, Shalini Ramanathan, and writes for the Houston Chronicle.

  THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS.

  An imprint of St. Martin’s Press.

  TOMLINSON HILL. Copyright © 2014 by Chris Tomlinson. Foreword copyright © 2014 by LaDainian Tomlinson. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

  www.thomasdunnebooks.com

  www.stmartins.com

  Cover design by Young Jin Lim

  Cover photographs: African-Americans on a plantation owned by J. J. Smith in Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862, by T. H. O’Sullivan; cotton balls by Hasan Kursad Ergan/Getty Images

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  The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

  Tomlinson, Chris.

  Tomlinson Hill: the remarkable story of two families who share the Tomlinson name—one white, one black / by Chris Tomlinson; foreword by LaDanian Tomlinson. — 1st ed.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 978-1-250-00547-2 (hardcover)

  ISBN 978-1-4668-5050-7 (e-book)

  1. Tomlinson, Chris—Family. 2. Tomlinson, LaDainian—Family. 3. Tomlinson Hill (Tex.)—Biography. 4. African Americans—Texas—Tomlinson Hill—Biography. 5. Whites—Texas—Tomlinson Hill—Biography. 6. Slaves—Texas—Tomlinson Hill—Biography. 7. Slaveholders—Texas—Tomlinson Hill—Biography. 8. Plantations—Texas—Tomlinson Hill—History. 9. Slavery—Texas—Tomlinson Hill—History. 10. Tomlinson Hill (Tex.)—Race relations. I. Title.

  F394.T65T66 2014

  305.896'073076428600922—dc23

  [B] 2014008825

  e-ISBN 9781466850507

  First Edition: July 2014

 

 

 


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