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Vera's Backyard Bar-B-Que is a restaurant in Brownsville, Texas, United States.In 2020 it was named an America's Classic by the James Beard Foundation. According to Texas Monthly the restaurant was as of 2022 the only commercial entity in Texas serving barbacoa made with the traditional pit-smoking method.
The Brownsville affair, or the Brownsville raid, was an incident of racial discrimination that occurred in 1906 in the Southwestern United States due to resentment by white residents of Brownsville, Texas, of the Buffalo Soldiers, black soldiers in a segregated unit stationed at nearby Fort Brown.
Brownsville city, Texas – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [95] Pop 2010 [96] Pop 2020 [97] % 2000 % ...
New barbecue restaurants made headline news in 2023, and that won’t change in 2024. The news of a $6 million Terry Black’s BBQ in the West 7th area and the openings of new Bojangles and ...
Also listed among Texas Monthly’s 2021 guide to the state’s top 50 barbecue restaurants: Hurtado Barbecue, 1116 Eighth Ave., Fort Worth, and 205 E. Front St., Arlington.
The small black population of Pollock left the town after the massacre of more than 100 blacks in nearby Colfax. November 1, 1878 Celina, Tennessee: Celina's black population left on November 1, 1878 after being subject to a series of violent actions over the course of several months. [5] 1886 Comanche County, Texas
White residents of town resented the presence of the Black soldiers, and tensions rose. On August 13 and 14, 1906, unknown persons "raided" Brownsville, indiscriminately shooting bystanders. They wounded one White man and killed White resident Frank Natus. The townspeople of Brownsville quickly blamed the Black soldiers for the incident.
This list of African American Historic Places in Texas is based on a book by the National Park Service, The Preservation Press, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers.