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Tulia is a city in and the county seat of Swisher County, Texas, United States. [4] The population was 4,967 at the 2010 census ; by the 2020 census , it had fallen to 4,473. [ 5 ] The city is at the junction of U.S. Route 87 and Texas State Highway 86 , about 2 miles (3 km) east of Interstate 27 .
On the morning of July 23, 1999, the Swisher County Sheriff's Department, in cooperation with local authorities, conducted a collective apprehension and arrest of 47 citizens in Tulia, Texas. [10] [11] Thirty-eight of the arrested were African American, [1] which amounted to approximately 10 to 20 percent of Tulia's African American population ...
Swisher County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 6,971. [1] Its county seat is Tulia. [2] The county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1890. [3] It is named for James G. Swisher, a soldier of the Texas Revolution and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence.
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Alan Bean is a white former minister working to uncover injustice and organize black opposition, in the racial controversies surrounding the Tulia 47 drug sting [1] [2] in Tulia, Texas and the Jena Six controversy in Jena, Louisiana.
Tulia, Texas, a city in, and county seat of, Swisher County, Texas Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Tulia .
A military training jet crashed Sunday in a neighborhood near Fort Worth, Texas, injuring the two pilots and damaging three homes but not seriously hurting anyone on the ground, authorities said.
Nate Blakeslee is a journalist and author in the United States. [1] He wrote a book about the 1999 drug arrests in Tulia, Texas about a corrupt lawman persecuting mostly African American residents, [2] and a book about the O-Six, an American wolf.