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A large majority of Black Texans live in the Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio and Beaumont-Port Arthur metropolitan areas. [6] The 2020 U.S. Census identified the Black population alone, non-Hispanic population at 3,444,712, [1] making Texas' Black population the largest of all states and territories in the United States. [7]
The Ashworth Act, was an act that was passed by the Texas Senate on December 12, 1840. It made the Ashworth Family as well as all free persons of color and emancipated slaves in the Republic of Texas exempt from a new law stipulating that all Black Texans either leave or risk being enslaved.
Barr, Alwyn (1996), Black Texans: A history of African Americans in Texas, 1528–1995 (2nd ed.), Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN 0-8061-2878-X; Campbell, Randolph B., An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989
This is a list of the first minority male lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Texas.It includes the year in which the men were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are other distinctions such as the first minority men in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
Fritz Pollard became the NFL's first black quarterback in 1923. This list of black starting NFL quarterbacks includes those who have started in a regular-season or post-season game in the National Football League (NFL). The quarterback is the leader of a team's offense, directing other players on the field.
The oldest Black Baptist church in Houston is the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, historically a part of the Freedmen's Town of Fourth Ward and now in Downtown Houston. [58] Jack Yates once served as the pastor of this church. [59] The city's first black Catholic church was St. Nicholas, located in the Third Ward. [60]
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Black Texas Creoles have been present in Texas since the 17th century and served as soldiers in Spanish garrisons of eastern Texas. Generations of Black Texas Creoles, also known as "Black Tejanos," played a role in later phases of Texas history during Mexican Texas, the Republic of Texas, and American Texas.