One of the most significant socio-economic impacts resulting from white supremacy, and its attending corollary of Black inferiority, was the use of race as a determinant of residential housing patterns which forced African American families into isolation in segregated neighborhoods. For Zinetta Burney and her African American neighbors in Houston’s Third Ward, Alabama Street was […]
![Zinetta Burney: Crossing Alabama St. Cousin Willie Senegal, Zinetta, and her brother John "Butch" Arceneaux celebrate Easter 1955 on Winbern St. Her father's Chevrolet is in the background. Photo courtesy of Zinetta Burney.](https://houstonhistorymagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/burney-adjusted-100x100.jpg)