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1920 - 1929
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1950 - 1959
1960 - 1969
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1910 |
 | Houston
black
population23,929 | Houston
total
population78,800 |
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1914 |
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1917 |
Camp Logan Race Riots |
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1918 |
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1919 |
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1910 - 1919
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1920 |
| Houston
black
population33,960 | Houston
total
population138,276 |
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1929 |
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1910 - 1919
1920 - 1929
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1950 - 1959
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1930 |
| Houston
black
population63,337 | Houston
total
population292,352 |
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1910 - 1919
1920 - 1929
1930 - 1939
1940 - 1949
1950 - 1959
1960 - 1969
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1940 |
| Houston
black
population86,302 | Houston
total
population384,514 |
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1941 |
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1942 |
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1943 |
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1944 |
Smith v. Allwright Supreme Court decision |
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1945 |
Sweatt applies for UT Law School |
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1946 |
Texas required to create a law school for blacks |
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1947 |
Texas Southern University -TSU- founded |
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1948 |
Mease begins working for Houston YMCA |
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1949 |
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1910 - 1919
1920 - 1929
1930 - 1939
1940 - 1949
1950 - 1959
1960 - 1969
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1950 |
Sweatt v. Painter filed
Sweatt v. Painter Supreme Court decision | Houston
black
population125,194 | Houston
total
population596,163 |
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1951 |
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1952 |
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1953 |
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1954 |
Brown v. Board of Education ignored in Houston |
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1955 |
South Central YMCA opens |
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1956 |
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1957 |
Pres. Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock to quell violence of high school integregation
Stearns denied admission to UT Law School |
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1958 |
White elected to HISD school board |
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1959 |
Stearns arrested
Stearns attends City Council meeting |
events leading
to Houston's
desegregation
choose decade
1910 - 1919
1920 - 1929
1930 - 1939
1940 - 1949
1950 - 1959
1960 - 1969
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1960 |
Greensboro, N.C. sit-in
Black student protestors expelled from Alabama State after staging sit-in at state capitol cafeteria
In Nashvile, whites attacked protesting blacks with rocks and lit cigarettes
First Houston sit-in
Moratorium on demonstrations
Bus station lunch counter serves blacks
Boycott of Houston downtown stores
Bob Dundas arranges media blackout
70 Houston lunch counters quietly integrated | Houston
black
population215,790 | Houston
total
population938,219 |
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1961 |
Bond election planned for domed stadium
48 students arrested at Houston railroad station
Jailed students used to raise funds
Daily arrests at railroad station
Black leaders support domed stadium
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1962 |
Black leaders take part in stadium ceremony
Houston hotel desegregation agreement
Houston convention hotels quietly desegregated
Houston's first major league baseball game
Houston downtown partially desegregated
Stearns loses credibility with Black leaders
Holly Hogrobrooks becomes leader of PYA
Pres. Kennedy announces race for moon |
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1963 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
Black protestors in Birmingham were attacked by police dogs and firehoses
G. Cooper makes final Mercury astronaut flight
Students plan to protest at Cooper's parade
No protest-desegregation agreement
Houston theaters and restaurants desegregated
Eldrewey Stearns graduated from TSU law school
Mississippi NAACP chief Medgar Evers murdered |
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