Descriptive Summary
Hickey, Thomas A., 1869-1925
Hickey, T. A., papers
1917, 1920,
1924-1925
Materials are written in English.
67-157
30 items
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin
Photocopies of letters, a program,
and articles comprise the T. A. Hickey Papers, 1917, 1920, 1924-1925, which concern
Hickey’s opinions on socialism, opposition to British landowners, taxation, the Ku
Klux Klan, Prohibition, and the National Non Partisan League.
Biographical Note
Born in Dublin, Ireland, journalist and oilman Thomas Aloysius Red Tom Hickey (1869-1925) immigrated to the United
States in 1892 and settled in Hallettsville, Texas, in 1907. Four years later, he
instituted the newspaper,
The Rebel, to represent the
Socialist Party of Texas. In 1917, the U.S. government filed criminal charges
against the organization for using the U.S. Post Office to distribute the newspaper.
Following the end of World War I, Hickey re-established The
Rebel in Dallas, became advertising manager of the Desedemona Oil News, and wrote for fourteen other papers. He and
other socialist organizers founded the National Workers Drilling and Production
Company in 1919, although Hickey left the next year. In 1925, he published Tom Hickey’s Magazine in Fort Worth.
Source:
Hunt, William R.
Hickey, Thomas Aloysius.
Handbook of Texas Online. Accessed January 18, 2011.
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhi55.
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of two 1917 letters, a 1920 program, and articles from 1924 to 1925
comprise the T. A. Hickey Papers, 1917, 1920, 1924-1925. The papers concern Hickey’s
opinions on socialism, opposition to British landowners, taxation, the Ku Klux Klan,
Prohibition, and the National Nonpartisan League. One of Hickey’s newspaper
articles,
Frontier Smashers, consists of short
sketches on persons making contributions to Texas’ development and Calliham Oil.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research use.
Index Terms
Subjects (Persons)
Hickey, Thomas A., 1869-1925 -- Archives.
Subjects (Organizations)
National Nonpartisan League.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Texas.
Calliham Oil.
Socialist Party (Tex.)
Subjects
Socialism -- Texas.
Journalists -- Texas.
Prohibition -- Texas.
Places
Texas -- Politics and government --
20th century.
Preferred Citation
T. A. Hickey Papers, 1917, 1920, 1924-1925, Dolph Briscoe Center for American
History, The University of Texas at Austin.
Related Material
See also Thomas A.
Hickey Papers, 1896-1996 and undated at the Southwest
Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.
Processing Information
This collection was processed by W. H. Richter, August 1967.
Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center’s History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light project, 2009-2011.
Detailed Description of the Papers
Inventory
3K423
Letters by Hickey, 1917
3K423
National Nonpartisan League program,
1920
3K423
Newspaper and magazine articles,
1924-1925