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The Brownsville affair, or the Brownsville raid, was an incident of racial discrimination that occurred in 1906 in the Southwestern United States due to resentment by white residents of Brownsville, Texas, of the Buffalo Soldiers, black soldiers in a segregated unit stationed at nearby Fort Brown.
Vera's Backyard Bar-B-Que is a restaurant in Brownsville, Texas, United States.In 2020 it was named an America's Classic by the James Beard Foundation. According to Texas Monthly the restaurant was as of 2022 the only commercial entity in Texas serving barbacoa made with the traditional pit-smoking method.
White residents of town resented the presence of the Black soldiers, and tensions rose. On August 13 and 14, 1906, unknown persons "raided" Brownsville, indiscriminately shooting bystanders. They wounded one White man and killed White resident Frank Natus. The townspeople of Brownsville quickly blamed the Black soldiers for the incident.
A large majority of Black Texans live in the Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio and Beaumont-Port Arthur metropolitan areas. [6] The 2020 U.S. Census identified the Black population alone, non-Hispanic population at 3,444,712, [1] making Texas' Black population the largest of all states and territories in the United States. [7]
The Blacks are also building a restaurant, winery and resort in Driftwood near Austin.. The Terry Black’s site, three blocks from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, is valued at $1.8 million ...
There was intermarriage among blacks, Indians, and Europeans. In 1792 there were 34 blacks and 414 mulattos in Spanish Texas, some of whom were free men and women. This was 15 percent of the total 2,992 people living in Spanish Texas. [10]
Brownsville has 37 parks connected by a 1,200-acre (1.9 sq mi) system of parkland and 32 mi (51 km) of bike lanes. The city also has three gymnasiums, two public pools, and 55 athletic fields. [130] Brownsville's proximity to the coast has allowed the city to register several locations under the list of protected areas of the United States.
Here's everything we know about the Brownsville driver: George Alvarez On Monday, Brownsville Police Chief Felix Sauceda held a press conference during which he revealed the driver had been ...