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still shot from the documentary, The Strange Demise of Jim Crow

Hobart Taylor looking at construction of the Harris County domed stadium

Hobart Taylor
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H obart Taylor, a black entrepreneur, was also a political ally of Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson. He contacted the head of the retail merchants group, Bill Wallace, and worked to get the merchants to voluntarily open some of their establishments to bring about desegregation in an orderly fashion.


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