As a white boy with working class parents, racism was in the air I breathed in my youth. Jim Crow touched every part of my life. Racial attitudes handed down by poor whites in the South for generations remained pervasive and unrelenting in my world in the 1950s and early 1960s. The underlying reality was […]
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In Search of Freedom: Black Migration to Houston, 1914-1945
To read the full text of this article by Bernadette Pruitt that appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of Houston History, download the pdf version.