It was January 1901. A blast of black gold shot 100 ft into the air, making the prospectors who harvested it millionaires. Anthony F. Lucas was drilling at Spindletop hill. Although others have drilled and failed, he was determined that there was oil in the area. He drilled for 3 months and pretty soon oil gushed out of the hill at a rate of 100,000 barrels a day for 9 days straight. An ordinary man has became a millionaire and soon others got that same idea. This kickstarted the Texas oil boom and brought vast income and social change. Texas was changing. Whether they liked it or not. The change that should get the most amount of time should be the jobs that allowed African americans and other minorities Thanks to the oil the more wealthy people were able to afford to allow a lower class citizen to clean the house for a dollar an hour, as opposed to a working in East Texas: “Ten dollars a week was a good wage back in east Texas.”(Doc C) The increased wage allow the less wealthy people to become able to afford to go to college and soon enough, more immigrants and african Americans were getting college tuition. …show more content…
The boom towns appeared where oil was found. A good example is Wink, Texas. “Wink, Texas, did not exist in 1925. Oil was discovered in 1926 and by 1927 Wink was suddenly on the map with an instant population of 3,500.(Doc D) Due to the large amount of wealthy prospectors, boom towns (if the towns didn't die out.) had the high tech and good sports teams thanks to the cool equipment and tweaking the rules. They amount of money and pride that went to the football team attracted thousand more people and pretty soon they would become a significant town in