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Hardcover 1928 The Pedagog yearbook from the Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos, Texas, 314 pages, 9.5 x 12.5, signed and inscribed above his ‘Debate Team’ portrait in ink, “Dear Helen: It has indeed been a pleasure to know such a girl as you. Your charming personality is something that all girls would like to have. You, no doubt, will make a success in whatever field you enter. Happiness should certainly be yours, your friend, Lyndon B. Johnson.” Johnson is pictured three more times throughout the yearbook: his sophomore portrait is pictured on page 77, and he’s shown as a member of The Pegagog (yearbook) and The College Star (school newspaper) staff on pages 148 and 150. Additionally, on page 302 is a printed quote/poem from Johnson, printed next to a drawing of a donkey: “As he looks to us on the campus every day. From far away, and we sincerely trust he is going back. Sophistry Club. Master of the gentle art of spoofing the general public.” In fine condition.
In 1928, after completing his freshman year in college, Lyndon Johnson took a teaching assignment in Cotulla, Texas, instructing 5th, 6th, and 7th graders at the Welhausen School, which largely provided education for the city’s impoverished Mexican-American population. Johnson held deep sympathy for his Hispanic students and the socioeconomic problems they faced, and he brought strict discipline into his classroom, organizing his young students to participate in debate, declamation, spelling bees, and physical education—opportunities they had never had before. His care and efforts were not unnoticed, and soon after arriving in Cotulla, Johnson was appointed school principal. LBJ’s experiences in Cotulla had a significant impact on his understanding of poverty, discrimination, and inequality, and shaped his later policies and efforts as President during the Civil Rights movement.
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