The Manhattan Club was the only site in Travis County selected in 2022 and one of 15 sites selected for this program statewide. The THC selects a handful of sites each year that commemorate “undertold stories” and fully funds the manufacture and installation of Official State Historical Markers. Hullum and Tassin successfully nominated the Manhattan Club for the THC’s Undertold Marker Program. You can read some of Hullum and Tassin’s scholarship on the Manhattan Club in the Handbook of Texas, an online encyclopedia of state history. The Club operated from 1957 to 1969.ĬBS Austin interviewed Hullum and Tassin about their research on the Manhattan Club. ![]() The Manhattan Club was one of Austin’s first queer-friendly public spaces located in the back of a Jewish Deli at 911 Congress. ![]() ![]() In February 2022, the Texas Historical Commission (THC) approved an application prepared by public history graduate students Amber Leigh Hullum and Railey Tassin to fully fund an Official State Historical Marker for the Manhattan Club.
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