beethwintz1992

@Book{ beethwintz1992,
    editor = {Howard Beeth and Cary D. Wintz},
    title = {Black Dixie: Afro-Texan History and Culture in Houston},
    address = {College Station},
    publisher = {Texas A\&M University Press},
    year = 1992,
}

Prologue by Howard Beeth notes understudy of Houston: “Historians, Houston, and History,” pages 3 through 9.

The “Introduction” reproduces much of Cary Wintz’s essay in Ethnic Groups of Houston, but this time with footnotes!

• p. 20: hostility to migrants by the Tri-Weekly Telegraph
• p. 21: “The black population of Houston grew from 1,077 in 1860 to 3,691 in 1870; this increased the proportion of blacks in the city’s population to 39.3 percent.”
• Early places where migrants to the city settled: “empty warehouses, like the Hotel d’Afrique, a [p. 22] run-down building where a large number of homeless blacks slept each night.”¹ Black community held fairs to raise money for newcomers.²
• p. 22-24 discusses racial residential patterns in the postwar period, noting that many white and Black residents lived in intertwined neighborhoods that were not yet starkly segregated. “By the end of the century, residential segregation was more widespread.”
• p. 25 - Antioch founded by white missionary William C. Crane, in 1866, and met in First Baptist and then German Baptist church, until the summer of 1866 when I. S. Campbell held services in a brush arbor, and then “built a frame structure in 1868 at Rusk and Bagby in the FOurth Ward. Jack Yates became pastor of Antioch in 1868 or early 1869.”
• p. 27: identifies James Snowball as a Black street commissioner appointed by the city council under Scanlan