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September 25, 1970 - August 8, 1973 - "Houston Mass Murders" occur. 27 boys are killed by 3 men. July 1978 - Race riots occur in the Moody Park section of the city (in response to the drowning of Jose Campos Torres by two Houston Police officers, and are documented by KPRC-TV , whose reporters are attacked and injured during their report.
In the 1970s, the Chinese American community in Houston, which had been relatively small, started growing at a rapid rate. The Sharpstown scandal , which concerned government bribes involving real estate developer Frank Sharp (neighborhood of Sharpstown is named after him) occurred in 1970 and 1971.
In 1960, the central business district had 10 million square feet (1,000,000 m 2) of office space, increasing to about 16 million square feet (1,600,000 m 2) in 1970. [18] Downtown Houston was on the threshold of a boom in 1970 with 8.7 million square feet (870,000 m 2) of office space planned or under construction and huge projects being ...
In 1970, 90% of the black people in Houston lived in mostly African-American neighborhoods. By 1980 this decreased to 82%. [13] Historically, the City of Houston placed established landfill facilities in established African American neighborhoods. Private companies also located landfills in black neighborhoods.
In areas in Greater Houston along the Gulf Coast some white residents had animosity towards Vietnamese fishermen. Around the late 1970s in Seabrook, Texas, a Ku Klux Klan group held an anti-Vietnamese rally, and in an incident two Vietnamese fishing boats were burned. [5] The second wave consisted of "boat people" who came from 1978 to 1982 ...
The scandal revolved around Houston banker and insurance company manager Frank Sharp and his companies, the Sharpstown State Bank and the National Bankers Life Insurance Corporation (NBL). Sharp granted $600,000 in loans from his bank to state officials who would, in turn, purchase stock in National Bankers Life, to be resold later at a huge ...
The Houston Ship Channel and Port of Houston became the state's busiest shipping resources and one of the top two in the nation. [84] Although Houston took the lead, the oil boom benefited other areas. The Sabine–Neches Waterway, located in the Beaumont/Port Arthur area, saw growth as a result of the oil boom.
1970 Houston Women's Invitation; 1975 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl; 1977 Southwest Conference men's basketball tournament; 1978 Southwest Conference men's basketball tournament; 1979 Southwest Conference men's basketball tournament