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In the U.S. state of Texas, Houston is the largest city by both population and area. With a 1850 United States census population of 2,396—and 596,163 a century later, in 1950—Houston's population has experienced positive growth trends. [1]
In areas in Greater Houston along the Gulf Coast some white residents had animosity towards Vietnamese fishermen. Around the late 1970s in Seabrook, Texas, a Ku Klux Klan group held an anti-Vietnamese rally, and in an incident two Vietnamese fishing boats were burned. [5] The second wave consisted of "boat people" who came from 1978 to 1982 ...
As of the 2010 U.S. Census there were 22,575 ethnic Filipinos in Harris County, making up 8.1% of the county's Asian population, the third largest Asian American group in the Houston area. [ 25 ] Relatively few persons of Filipino origin had come to Houston by 1960, [ 45 ] and around 1970 the entire State of Texas had about 50,000 people of ...
This was the first census since 1820 in which New York was not the most populous state—California overtook it in population in January 1963. This was also the first census in which all states recorded a population of over 300,000, and the first in which a city in the geographic South— Houston —recorded a population of over 1 million.
From the 1870s to the 1890s, African Americans made up almost 40% of Houston's population. Between 1910 and 1970 the African American population ranged from 21% to 32.7%. [3] In 1870 36% of the African-Americans in Houston lived in the Fourth Ward, 29% lived in the Third Ward, 16% lived in the Fifth Ward, and 19% lived in other areas.
Houston served the Confederacy as a regional military logistics center. The population increased during the war and blockade runners used the town as a center for their operations. Investment and development of railroads serving Houston increased the transportation options for freight and passengers while greatly increasing the number of jobs.
It had 10,027 residents and was 25% white in 1960; 11% of the residents had lived in Riverside Terrace in 1955, and of the population that did not, 78% previously lived in central Houston. [ 13 ] 95% of the residents of the section north of the Brays Bayou were African-American during that year. [ 28 ]
The 2010 United States census is released, listing Houston's population as 2,100,263; ... 1970 - August 8, 1973 - "Houston Mass Murders" occur. 27 boys are killed by ...