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Glencoe, Oklahoma, residents in 1901 responded to a group of 40 Black railroad workers with threats of "a visit from vigilants with ropes" for arriving in the historically all-White town, which prompted the United States Marshals Service to intervene in fear of a race war. [138] Greer County, Oklahoma, once a part of Texas, was a sundown county ...
In 2004 55% of the African American population born in Harris County originated from the Houston area either by birth or through growing up there as children. [19] Between 2010 and 2015, Houston added about 100,000 new black residents to the area. Only behind the Atlanta and Dallas areas. [39]
Harris County accounted for the largest percentage of that growth. [17] Harris County's largest city Houston is now known as a center of African-American political power, education, economic prosperity, and culture, often called the next black mecca. [18] There is a black Louisiana Creole community in Texas. [19]
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A Texas judge has ruled in favor of a Republican candidate challenging the results in a 2022 judicial race and ordered that a new election be held in the nation’s third-most populous county, a ...
The challenges facing Houston’s next mayor are familiar to many big cities: crime, crumbling infrastructure, budget shortfalls and a lack of affordable housing. U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took ...
The prevalence of Human trafficking in Houston, Texas is the worst of any U.S. city. Between 2007 and 2016 the city ranked first for reported trafficking cases, [1] while in 2019 the number of cases nearly doubled compared to the previous three years, [2] despite Mayoral initiatives, [3] due to the highly organized nature of this criminal business.
For example, in 1911, Houston County, Georgia, educated about 3200 blacks and 1050 whites, but funding for Black schools was about $4,500, compared to $10,700 for white schools. [3] During this time, Georgia's funding of public schools was based on a variety of state and local reactions to different laws and court rulings. [3] Plessy v.