Civic and Cultural Houston, Texas
Author: T. Roger Blythe
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Published: 1950
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Author: T. Roger Blythe
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Published: 1950
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas H. Kreneck
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2012-02-13
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1603446923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThough relatively small in number until the latter decades of the nineteenth century, Houston'sHispanic population possesses a rich and varied history that has previously not been readily associated in the popular imagination with Houston. However, in 1989, the first edition of Thomas H. Kreneck’s Del Pueblo vividly captured the depth and breadth of Houston’s Hispanic people, illustrating both the obstacles and the triumphs that characterized this vital community’s rise to prominence during the twentieth century. This new, revised edition of Del Pueblo: A History of Houston’s Hispanic Community updates that vibrant history, incorporating research on trends and changes through the beginning of the new millennium. Especially important in this new edition are Kreneck’s historical contextualization of the 1980s as the “Decade of the Hispanic” and his documentation of other significant developments taking place since the publication of the original edition. Illustrated with seventy-five photographs of significant people, places, and events, this new edition of Del Pueblo: A History of Houston’s Hispanic Community updates the unfolding story of one of the nation’s most influential and dynamic ethnic groups. Students and scholars of Mexican American and Hispanic issues and culture, as well as general readers interested in this important aspect of Houston and regional history, will not want to be without this important book.
Author: Dorothy Knox Howe Houghton
Publisher: Rice Univ Studies
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780892633104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ambitious book, originally published by Rice University Press in 1991, describes Houston home life and culture from the settlement of Houston to World War I, when rapid economic development spelled demolition for many notable nineteenth-century public buildings.
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 1596
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bernadette Pruitt
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2013-10-24
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 1603449485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the country’s demographics but also black culture. In her thorough study of migration to Houston, Bernadette Pruitt portrays the move from rural to urban homes in Jim Crow Houston as a form of black activism and resistance to racism. Between 1900 and 1950 nearly fifty thousand blacks left their rural communities and small towns in Texas and Louisiana for Houston. Jim Crow proscription, disfranchisement, acts of violence and brutality, and rural poverty pushed them from their homes; the lure of social advancement and prosperity based on urban-industrial development drew them. Houston’s close proximity to basic minerals, innovations in transportation, increased trade, augmented economic revenue, and industrial development prompted white families, commercial businesses, and industries near the Houston Ship Channel to recruit blacks and other immigrants to the city as domestic laborers and wage earners. Using census data, manuscript collections, government records, and oral history interviews, Pruitt details who the migrants were, why they embarked on their journeys to Houston, the migration networks on which they relied, the jobs they held, the neighborhoods into which they settled, the culture and institutions they transplanted into the city, and the communities and people they transformed in Houston.
Author: American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
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Published: 1975-06
Total Pages: 512
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