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The Red Diary...
The history of blacks in the Houston area began upon their arrival under the Spanish in the second decade of the Nineteenth Century.
What followed was a pattern of revoked promises and insurmountable obstacles that were being duplicated on the national level.
But amid such struggle, Houston-area blacks progressively laid a strong foundation for success. Despite the reign of the Ku Klux
Klan, the segregation movement, the "Red Summer" of 1919, and numerous other incidents of persecution, blacks in Houston have
responded with the development of social, business, and political organizations, the establishment of higher education opportunities,
leadership in government and the record continues to grow.
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