Texas: The Bonnie Blue Flag, Part II (1973)

Duration: 26:27:00

Year Published: 1973

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: “Texas” is a 1970s educational film series produced by KHOU-TV. The Bonnie Blue Flag, hosted by revered Houston newsman Ron Stone, focuses on the history of Texas leading up to and during the Civil War. Part II discusses Texas’s involvement in the war, from volunteer regiments in the Confederate States Army to the locations of several defining battles. The segment also touches upon the role of slavery in Texas and its connection to the South’s booming cotton industry. To conclude the segment, Stone also talks about Texas during Reconstruction. Please note: The segment includes Confederate songs that are derogatory in nature. The Texas Archive of the Moving Image does not condone these sentiments, but presents this film with its accurate historical context, because to do otherwise would be the same as to claim this discriminatory behavior never existed.