My father, Mark Spencer Smith, once told me that he had sued the United States for 100 civil rights violations for the Mexican American. For instance, the Mexican American could not get their hair cut in a white owned business in Texas. This was in the 1960's. He told me that he fought one of the last slavery trials in the United States when he successfully represented an African American teenage man who had been chained to a machine that he operated at work. He apparently was always leaving so they chained him to that machine.
His mother's family had a deep dark secret. Her great grandmother was an Oneida American Indian. Oneida Eveline Hambrick Elrod died in Alvord, Texas in 1914. She was 87 years old. She bore at least 5 children without anesthesia.
The Oneida Indian Nation is famous for relieving the starving colonial soldiers at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania in the punishing winter of 1777. They were also great friends to Alexander Hamilton who is credited as the founder of America's financial system, the Federalist Party, the United States Coast Guard and The New York Post newspaper.
As everyone knows, the American Indian has been discriminated against in America. The word 'discriminated' is used here to be used in exchange for slaughtered, obliterated, assimilated or whatever else one wishes to describe the U.S. attitude and behavior and it's good or bad treatment of the American Indian.
Discrimination in the United States is as American as apple pie. Discrimination has become commonplace, but it is nonetheless, unpleasant and contrary to a civilized people. If you are open to the public in the USA and refuse service on the basis of skin color, religion or sex this is illegal.
My father was a troubled man. He grew up in Chico and Throckmorton, Texas. He moved to Texas in the 1947 when his father, John Lee Smith lost his campaign to remain lieutenant governor of Texas to Buford Jester.
As a young man, he proved himself to be an able trial attorney. He joined the law practice of his father John Lee Smith Sr. to form Smith & Smith Attorneys at Law in Lubbock, Texas in the 1956 or so. Mark Smith became an attorney after he studied law at the University of Texas at Austin. Unfortunately, John Lee Smith died in 1964. The law practice became Smith & Associates.
2 children with James N. McNeese, Teeta's previous husband. Teeta bore 10 children in total.
I was born in 1962 and there were three children born after me. Mark and Teeta had eight children.
Teeta had divorced her first husband, James N. McNeese from Abilene, Texas. James was in medical school when they were married. They had two children,
my elder half sister and my elder half brother. Sadly, Marcus was born deformed in 1950 and died five days after birth. The doctor would not allow Teeta to see him. She had asked. Remember, this was in 1950. A woman did as she was told.
Teeta would have eight children with Mark. Sadly, many of her children preceded her in death. I had once asked her if she would have wished that they had never been horn and she said: "Absolutely not, I wouldn't have been able to watch their personalities develop!"
Mark and Teeta were happy for a time, but he became an abusive alcoholic in the marriage. Finally, Teeta filed for divorce. Mark Smith was a powerful figure in Lubbock and no attorney wanted to represent her. However she did finally find an attorney and she found safety in Austin, Texas for awhile. Unfortunately, because of some sad occurrences Teeta felt forced to return to Mark for monetary reasons.
I'll never forget the night we returned to Lubbock. There was work being done on our house so Mark was staying at an apartment and I, Charlotte, Deirdre and Christian were to sleep in the adjacent room of a 2 bedroom apartment. After a time, there was an angry bellow from Mark & he pushed Teeta, who was naked, through the apartment and forced her out the front door of the apartment. This was at 2:00 or 3:00 AM in the morning.
I once asked her how she persuaded him to let her back in and she said she just continued knocking. What I also remember is that after a long silence, Charlotte and I left the apartment and walked from 4th street to 20th street to ask for a place to sleep for the night from the Andrews. Mr Andrews had had problems with my father, so they understood why we would need assistance. I was 15 years old, Charlotte was 14 years old.
His mother's family had a deep dark secret. Her great grandmother was an Oneida American Indian. Oneida Eveline Hambrick Elrod died in Alvord, Texas in 1914. She was 87 years old. She bore at least 5 children without anesthesia.
The Oneida Indian Nation is famous for relieving the starving colonial soldiers at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania in the punishing winter of 1777. They were also great friends to Alexander Hamilton who is credited as the founder of America's financial system, the Federalist Party, the United States Coast Guard and The New York Post newspaper.
As everyone knows, the American Indian has been discriminated against in America. The word 'discriminated' is used here to be used in exchange for slaughtered, obliterated, assimilated or whatever else one wishes to describe the U.S. attitude and behavior and it's good or bad treatment of the American Indian.
Discrimination in the United States is as American as apple pie. Discrimination has become commonplace, but it is nonetheless, unpleasant and contrary to a civilized people. If you are open to the public in the USA and refuse service on the basis of skin color, religion or sex this is illegal.
My father was a troubled man. He grew up in Chico and Throckmorton, Texas. He moved to Texas in the 1947 when his father, John Lee Smith lost his campaign to remain lieutenant governor of Texas to Buford Jester.
As a young man, he proved himself to be an able trial attorney. He joined the law practice of his father John Lee Smith Sr. to form Smith & Smith Attorneys at Law in Lubbock, Texas in the 1956 or so. Mark Smith became an attorney after he studied law at the University of Texas at Austin. Unfortunately, John Lee Smith died in 1964. The law practice became Smith & Associates.
2 children with James N. McNeese, Teeta's previous husband. Teeta bore 10 children in total.
I was born in 1962 and there were three children born after me. Mark and Teeta had eight children.
Teeta had divorced her first husband, James N. McNeese from Abilene, Texas. James was in medical school when they were married. They had two children,
my elder half sister and my elder half brother. Sadly, Marcus was born deformed in 1950 and died five days after birth. The doctor would not allow Teeta to see him. She had asked. Remember, this was in 1950. A woman did as she was told.
Teeta would have eight children with Mark. Sadly, many of her children preceded her in death. I had once asked her if she would have wished that they had never been horn and she said: "Absolutely not, I wouldn't have been able to watch their personalities develop!"
Mark and Teeta were happy for a time, but he became an abusive alcoholic in the marriage. Finally, Teeta filed for divorce. Mark Smith was a powerful figure in Lubbock and no attorney wanted to represent her. However she did finally find an attorney and she found safety in Austin, Texas for awhile. Unfortunately, because of some sad occurrences Teeta felt forced to return to Mark for monetary reasons.
I'll never forget the night we returned to Lubbock. There was work being done on our house so Mark was staying at an apartment and I, Charlotte, Deirdre and Christian were to sleep in the adjacent room of a 2 bedroom apartment. After a time, there was an angry bellow from Mark & he pushed Teeta, who was naked, through the apartment and forced her out the front door of the apartment. This was at 2:00 or 3:00 AM in the morning.
I once asked her how she persuaded him to let her back in and she said she just continued knocking. What I also remember is that after a long silence, Charlotte and I left the apartment and walked from 4th street to 20th street to ask for a place to sleep for the night from the Andrews. Mr Andrews had had problems with my father, so they understood why we would need assistance. I was 15 years old, Charlotte was 14 years old.
My father, Mark Spencer Smith, once told me that he had sued the United States for 100 civil rights violations for the Mexican American. For instance, the Mexican American could not get their hair cut in a white owned business in Texas. This was in the 1960's. He told me that he fought one of the last slavery trials in the United States when he successfully represented an African American teenage man who had been chained to a machine that he operated at work. He apparently was always leaving so they chained him to that machine.
His mother's family had a deep dark secret. Her great grandmother was an Oneida American Indian. Oneida Eveline Hambrick Elrod died in Alvord, Texas in 1914. She was 87 years old. She bore at least 5 children without anesthesia.
The Oneida Indian Nation is famous for relieving the starving colonial soldiers at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania in the punishing winter of 1777. They were also great friends to Alexander Hamilton who is credited as the founder of America's financial system, the Federalist Party, the United States Coast Guard and The New York Post newspaper.
As everyone knows, the American Indian has been discriminated against in America. The word 'discriminated' is used here to be used in exchange for slaughtered, obliterated, assimilated or whatever else one wishes to describe the U.S. attitude and behavior and it's good or bad treatment of the American Indian.
Discrimination in the United States is as American as apple pie. Discrimination has become commonplace, but it is nonetheless, unpleasant and contrary to a civilized people. If you are open to the public in the USA and refuse service on the basis of skin color, religion or sex this is illegal.
My father was a troubled man. He grew up in Chico and Throckmorton, Texas. He moved to Texas in the 1947 when his father, John Lee Smith lost his campaign to remain lieutenant governor of Texas to Buford Jester.
As a young man, he proved himself to be an able trial attorney. He joined the law practice of his father John Lee Smith Sr. to form Smith & Smith Attorneys at Law in Lubbock, Texas in the 1956 or so. Mark Smith became an attorney after he studied law at the University of Texas at Austin. Unfortunately, John Lee Smith died in 1964. The law practice became Smith & Associates.
2 children with James N. McNeese, Teeta's previous husband. Teeta bore 10 children in total.
I was born in 1962 and there were three children born after me. Mark and Teeta had eight children.
Teeta had divorced her first husband, James N. McNeese from Abilene, Texas. James was in medical school when they were married. They had two children,
my elder half sister and my elder half brother. Sadly, Marcus was born deformed in 1950 and died five days after birth. The doctor would not allow Teeta to see him. She had asked. Remember, this was in 1950. A woman did as she was told.
Teeta would have eight children with Mark. Sadly, many of her children preceded her in death. I had once asked her if she would have wished that they had never been horn and she said: "Absolutely not, I wouldn't have been able to watch their personalities develop!"
Mark and Teeta were happy for a time, but he became an abusive alcoholic in the marriage. Finally, Teeta filed for divorce. Mark Smith was a powerful figure in Lubbock and no attorney wanted to represent her. However she did finally find an attorney and she found safety in Austin, Texas for awhile. Unfortunately, because of some sad occurrences Teeta felt forced to return to Mark for monetary reasons.
I'll never forget the night we returned to Lubbock. There was work being done on our house so Mark was staying at an apartment and I, Charlotte, Deirdre and Christian were to sleep in the adjacent room of a 2 bedroom apartment. After a time, there was an angry bellow from Mark & he pushed Teeta, who was naked, through the apartment and forced her out the front door of the apartment. This was at 2:00 or 3:00 AM in the morning.
I once asked her how she persuaded him to let her back in and she said she just continued knocking. What I also remember is that after a long silence, Charlotte and I left the apartment and walked from 4th street to 20th street to ask for a place to sleep for the night from the Andrews. Mr Andrews had had problems with my father, so they understood why we would need assistance. I was 15 years old, Charlotte was 14 years old.
His mother's family had a deep dark secret. Her great grandmother was an Oneida American Indian. Oneida Eveline Hambrick Elrod died in Alvord, Texas in 1914. She was 87 years old. She bore at least 5 children without anesthesia.
The Oneida Indian Nation is famous for relieving the starving colonial soldiers at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania in the punishing winter of 1777. They were also great friends to Alexander Hamilton who is credited as the founder of America's financial system, the Federalist Party, the United States Coast Guard and The New York Post newspaper.
As everyone knows, the American Indian has been discriminated against in America. The word 'discriminated' is used here to be used in exchange for slaughtered, obliterated, assimilated or whatever else one wishes to describe the U.S. attitude and behavior and it's good or bad treatment of the American Indian.
Discrimination in the United States is as American as apple pie. Discrimination has become commonplace, but it is nonetheless, unpleasant and contrary to a civilized people. If you are open to the public in the USA and refuse service on the basis of skin color, religion or sex this is illegal.
My father was a troubled man. He grew up in Chico and Throckmorton, Texas. He moved to Texas in the 1947 when his father, John Lee Smith lost his campaign to remain lieutenant governor of Texas to Buford Jester.
As a young man, he proved himself to be an able trial attorney. He joined the law practice of his father John Lee Smith Sr. to form Smith & Smith Attorneys at Law in Lubbock, Texas in the 1956 or so. Mark Smith became an attorney after he studied law at the University of Texas at Austin. Unfortunately, John Lee Smith died in 1964. The law practice became Smith & Associates.
2 children with James N. McNeese, Teeta's previous husband. Teeta bore 10 children in total.
I was born in 1962 and there were three children born after me. Mark and Teeta had eight children.
Teeta had divorced her first husband, James N. McNeese from Abilene, Texas. James was in medical school when they were married. They had two children,
my elder half sister and my elder half brother. Sadly, Marcus was born deformed in 1950 and died five days after birth. The doctor would not allow Teeta to see him. She had asked. Remember, this was in 1950. A woman did as she was told.
Teeta would have eight children with Mark. Sadly, many of her children preceded her in death. I had once asked her if she would have wished that they had never been horn and she said: "Absolutely not, I wouldn't have been able to watch their personalities develop!"
Mark and Teeta were happy for a time, but he became an abusive alcoholic in the marriage. Finally, Teeta filed for divorce. Mark Smith was a powerful figure in Lubbock and no attorney wanted to represent her. However she did finally find an attorney and she found safety in Austin, Texas for awhile. Unfortunately, because of some sad occurrences Teeta felt forced to return to Mark for monetary reasons.
I'll never forget the night we returned to Lubbock. There was work being done on our house so Mark was staying at an apartment and I, Charlotte, Deirdre and Christian were to sleep in the adjacent room of a 2 bedroom apartment. After a time, there was an angry bellow from Mark & he pushed Teeta, who was naked, through the apartment and forced her out the front door of the apartment. This was at 2:00 or 3:00 AM in the morning.
I once asked her how she persuaded him to let her back in and she said she just continued knocking. What I also remember is that after a long silence, Charlotte and I left the apartment and walked from 4th street to 20th street to ask for a place to sleep for the night from the Andrews. Mr Andrews had had problems with my father, so they understood why we would need assistance. I was 15 years old, Charlotte was 14 years old.
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