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Family legacies and the stateโs Jim Crow past underlie a fight over mineral rights on a stretch of South Texas scrubland
Read full article: Family legacies and the stateโs Jim Crow past underlie a fight over mineral rights on a stretch of South Texas scrublandDescendants of a prominent white family and a formerly enslaved couple are fighting over ownership โ and the oil and gas royalties that would come with it โ of an 147.5-acre tract that has bound and divided generations of their families.