The Great Migration to Houston

Name: The Great Migration to Houston
Start: 2025-02-20T11:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-02-20T13:00:00-06:00
Location: C-100 Commerce Street Building

by Center for Student Advocacy & Community

Lecture BlackHistoryMonth Center for Public Service Student Development University of Houston Downtown

Thu, Feb 20, 2025

11:30 AM – 1 PM CST (GMT-6)

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C-100 Commerce Street Building

One Main Street, Houston, TX 77002, United States

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Join us to learn more about the early history of African American life in Houston. An estimated 50,000 African Americans relocated to Houston from 1900-1950 to escape rural poverty and social depravity. While Houston still practiced racial segregation, racialized violence, wage differentials, and oppression based on race, it still offered Black Texans and Louisianans more individualized and group freedoms.

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C-100 Commerce Street Building

One Main Street, Houston, TX 77002, United States

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