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East Texas has some Black majority towns. Also known as the Big Thicket, and Piney Woods region [94] Ames - Black population, 700 (74.71%) in 2020 Census; Athens - Black population, 2,059 (16.01%) in 2020 Census; Browndell - Black population, 78 (48.75%) in 2020 Census; Cuney - Black population, 69 (59.48%) in 2020 Census
East Texas is within the Black Belt region, the fertile area that was the center of cotton culture and enslaved African-American labor. [12] [13] East Texas has the largest Black population in the state. [14] Unlike Texas's total state racial demographics, only two counties in East Texas outside of Greater Houston's sphere had a majority minority.
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.
Blackland is a historically black neighborhood on the east side of Austin, Texas, located north of Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, south of Manor Road, east of I-35, and west of Chestnut Street. [1]
The Great Migration was the movement of more than one million African Americans out of rural Southern United States from 1914 to 1940. Most African Americans who participated in the migration moved to large industrial cities such as New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cincinnati, Cleveland, St. Louis, Kansas City, Missouri, Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C ...
In 2000 the City of Houston-defined Sunnyside Super Neighborhood had 18,629 residents. 93% were non-Hispanic black, 4% were Hispanic, and 1% each were non-Hispanic white, Asian, and others. [20] In 2010 the home ownership rate was 46%. As of 2016 about 22,000 people lived in the Sunnyside area, with 97% being black and 10% being Hispanic. [10]
This is a list of unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Texas, listed by county. This may include disincorporated communities, towns with no incorporated status, ghost towns , or census-designated places .
Lombard Street (Baltimore) (Jewtown, Baltimore) – also was an Italian neighborhood. [362] Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley, etc.) Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City (historic) – NYC is world's largest Jewish community outside Israel (10–20% of Jewish faith or descent, or 1.1 million – 1.5 million observant Jews). [363]