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2. Black-owned business - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, Black-owned businesses (or Black businesses), also known as African American businesses, originated in the days of slavery before 1865.Emancipation and civil rights permitted businessmen to operate inside the American legal structure starting in the Reconstruction Era (1863–77) and afterwards.

3. History of African Americans in Houston - Wikipedia

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   The same population increased to 125,400, 21% of the city population, in 1950. 87.9% of the population increase from 1940 to 1950 was due to African-Americans moving from other parts of the United States, mostly Louisiana and Texas; most of the migrating African-Americans from rural areas and small towns. 1960 the African-American population ...

4. List of African-American historic places in Texas - Wikipedia

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   This list of African American Historic Places in Texas is based on a book by the National Park Service, The Preservation Press, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers. [1]

5. Independence Heights, Houston - Wikipedia

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   Independence Heights became the first African American municipality in Texas when it was incorporated on January 25, 1915 with a population of nearly 600. Several of the residents worked in Houston, some of the residents worked in the Houston Heights, and some residents worked in other areas. The city had 715 residents in 1920.

6. History of African Americans in Texas - Wikipedia

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   Texas has the largest African-American population in the country. [14] African Americans are concentrated in eastern, east-central and northern Texas, as well as the Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio metropolitan areas. [15] African Americans form 24 percent of both the cities of Dallas and Houston, 19% of Fort Worth, 8.1 percent of ...

7. List of historically black colleges and universities - Wikipedia

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   Texas Southern University: Houston: Texas: 1927 Public Founded as "Texas State University for Negroes" Yes Tougaloo College: Hinds County: Mississippi: 1869 Private [z] Founded as "Tougaloo University" Yes Trenholm State Community College: Montgomery: Alabama: 1947 Public Founded as "John M. Patterson Technical School" [21] Yes Tuskegee ...