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.
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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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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