{"id":40621,"date":"2016-09-23T20:30:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T20:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=40621"},"modified":"2016-09-27T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T14:40:15","slug":"history-symposium-examines-texas-law-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/09\/23\/history-symposium-examines-texas-law-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"History symposium examines Texas law enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College (ACC) will host a symposium on Texas history 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, October 15, at Eastview Campus, Building 8000, Room 8500 (3401 Webberville Rd.).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-40622\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-23-at-3.29.04-PM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-09-23-at-3-29-04-pm\" width=\"392\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-23-at-3.29.04-PM.png 609w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-23-at-3.29.04-PM-271x300.png 271w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-23-at-3.29.04-PM-135x150.png 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLots of Law East of the Pecos\u201d will feature two talks on law enforcement in Texas history:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ACC Professor Kemp Dixon will discuss his father&#8217;s experience as a Texas Ranger in the mid-20th century.<\/li>\n<li>Houston Community College professor Theresa Jach will speak on convict lease labor in the state during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re taking a critical look back in time,\u201d says Cam Addis, ACC history professor. \u201cStudents will discover a deeper understanding of our state\u2019s law enforcement history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event, presented by ACC\u2019s History Department, is free and open to the public. Refreshments are provided.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Addis at 512-223-2134 or\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:caddis@austincc.edu\">caddis@austincc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College (ACC) will host a symposium on Texas history 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, October 15, at Eastview Campus, Building 8000, Room 8500 (3401 Webberville Rd.). \u201cLots of Law East of the Pecos\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/09\/23\/history-symposium-examines-texas-law-enforcement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":40622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,17,19],"tags":[72,1104,1174,1175],"class_list":["post-40621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-community","category-current-students","category-news-and-announcements","category-students-and-alumni","tag-history","tag-law-enforcement","tag-symposium","tag-texas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}