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The Houston race riot of 1917, also known as the Camp Logan Mutiny, [1] [2] was a mutiny and riot by 156 soldiers from the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army, taking place on August 23, 1917, in Houston, Texas.
Camp Logan was a World War I–era army training camp in Houston, Texas, named after U.S. Senator and Civil War General John A. Logan. [1] The site of the camp is now primarily occupied by Memorial Park where it borders the Crestwood neighborhood, near Memorial Elementary School.
Logan police and prosecutors focused on Johnston as their primary suspect immediately, although there were reliable witnesses whose accounts disputed their theory of the crime, which was that Johnston had killed and dismembered the couple at the Johnston farm, then bagged the body parts and transported them to the river and the cornfield.
Johnnie Jefferson, an 85-year-old resident of Richmond, Texas, says she faces the heartbreaking prospect of losing the six-bedroom house she has lived in for more than 20 years after a ...
A US weather presenter joked that everyone in a Texas city “was dead” as his screen malfunctioned. Pete Delkus gave an impromptu response after a typo appeared on a heat index figure for McKinney.
An appointed panel in Texas reclassified "Colonization and the Wampanoag Story" from nonfiction to fiction at county library. Then came the response. 'I just wrote down what happened.'
On the evening of July 26, 1988, the body of 17-year-old Tate Rowland was discovered hanging from a horse apple tree on a dirt road outside of Childress, Texas by his friend, Chad Johnston. [4] At 6 p.m., Johnston came to Rowland's house, where he told Rowland's father and stepmother, Brenda, that he had witnessed Tate hang himself. [5]
A 6-year-old Georgetown boy was unconscious in a hospital bed on Tuesday, more than a week after a neighbor broke into his home and attacked him with a baseball bat, according to authorities and ...