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Third Ward is an area of Houston, Texas, United States, that evolved from one of the six historic wards of the same name. It is located in the southeast Houston management district. Third Ward, located inside the 610 Loop is immediately southeast of Downtown Houston and to the east of the Texas Medical Center.
Home to world-class universities, art galleries, family-run bakeries, and Black-owned bookstores, Houston’s Third Ward is one of the city’s cultural bedrocks.
Third Ward, Houston, Texas. Photo by Nick Juhasz, Public domain. In 1837, Houston, Texas was incorporated and divided into four wards. The Southeast ward was named Third Ward and over time this area became an important center of African American-owned businesses and a hub for black culture.
Explore the best of Houston’s Historic Third Ward in 2021 and learn about its rich Black history through the eyes of a current resident with generations-deep roots in the area, including restaurants, outdoor activities, and art exhibits.
Third Ward has been called the cradle of the city’s civil rights movement because black college students sat down at a segregated Third Ward lunch counter to first protest discriminatory policies in 1960. Most of the social activism from the African American community grew out of Third Ward.
Greater Third Ward is the home of some of the most important institutions in Houston's African American community, including Texas Southern University, Riverside Hospital, and dozens of prominent churches.
Third Ward Houston. The Third Ward Cultural Arts District, officially created by the Texas Commission on the Arts in September 2020, supports Third Ward residents by activating spaces of healing and creating a haven for the artists most in need of a place to feel safe to create and thrive.
The Civil Rights Movement is when the transition happened. With the end of segregation, Houston was open to everyone and people in the Third Ward began to leave. A community that flourished because of the wealth that was growing, was now left in the weeds.
Third Ward grew into one of Houston’s most dynamic Black neighborhoods, growing in tandem with the Fifth Ward on the north side of downtown. For almost a hundred years after the Civil War, legal segregation meant that Third Ward residents had to build the community they wanted to live in, and the area thrived.
Though historically the Fourth Ward and Freedmen’s Town were Black cultural centers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Third Ward grew in prominence, eventually passing Fourth Ward in population and the attraction of Black institutions.