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POSTWAR GROWTH & PRESERVATION MOVEMENT (1945-1992) <br />National Historic <br />Preservation Act <br />passed, creating State <br />Historic Preservation <br />Legislature expanded <br />Offices, the National <br />Survey Committee's <br />Register of Historic <br />mandate with authority <br />Places, and Section <br />to protect significant <br />106 environmental <br />buildings. <br />compliance. <br />1963 <br />Five Black women <br />desegregated Texas <br />State. <br />Gary Air Force Base <br />decommissioned. <br />1964 <br />Dunbar School closed <br />during desegregation <br />Integrated Crockett <br />Elementary opened. <br />Georgia Faye Hoodye and Mabeleen Washington, standing, <br />and Dana Jean Smith and Gloria Odoms, seated, were first <br />to desegregate Texas State on February 4, 1963 (Courtesy of <br />TXST, SMDR). Helen Jackson enrolled the next day. <br />1965 <br />San Marcos Urban <br />Renewal Agency <br />began buying property <br />around Texas State and <br />demolishing historic - <br />age buildings. <br />Former airfield <br />became the Municipal <br />Airport and Gary Job <br />Corps Training Center. <br />San Marcos schools <br />fully desegregated. <br />1966 <br />San Marcos Urban <br />Renewal Agency gave <br />Alumni House where <br />LBJ lived as a student <br />to Texas State. <br />First course in Mexican <br />American Culture <br />taught at Texas State. <br />Bonham School <br />(formerly Southside) <br />pioneered bilingual <br />education in Texas. <br />1968 Purgatory Creek flooding at S LBJ Dr (Courtesy of SMPL) <br />42 SAN MARCOS HISTORIC PRESERVATION PLAN (2026) <br />