Fueled by the power of Stonewall, Houston's GLBT community could no longer be silent! Even the local media captured the feeling. The cartoon below was printed in the Houston Post on Friday, January 18, 1985. Photographs of a Ku Klux Klan meeting in Pasadena, Texas. Dates. 1980 Conditions Governing Access. This collection is not yet processed. Contact the curator to request access. Extent. From the Sub-Series: 745 Megabytes Related Names Houston TX 77204-2000 USA 713-743-9750 Guardians Against Change: The Ku Klux Klan in Houston and Harris County, 1920-1925 By Casey Greene The following essay is an excerpt from an article of the same name that appeared in the Houston Review Vol. X, No. 1, 1988. It is reprinted with the author's permission. O n the evening of November 27, 1920, some two hun- Of the 84 active groups in Texas, 52 are Ku Klux Klan chapters across the state. Formed in 1865, the KKK is the oldest of American hate groups, and today there are dozens of competing sects within the organization, according to SPLC. There are 190 chapters in the U.S. The SPLC says there were 28 klan chapters in 1990. Hien Tran, 66, and her dog Lucy at the Thai Xuan Village apartment complex in Houston. When Vietnamese refugees first settled in the coastal town of Seadrift, Texas, they encountered prejudice and Photo courtesy of Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library. On the evening of November 27, 1920, some two hundred mysterious figures threaded their way behind a torch bearer through the downtown streets of Houston. A hush fell over thousands of onlookers as the hooded figures silently "passed like specters from another Houston police urged anyone with information about the mother and daughter or their business to contact them at 713-308-3100. For more on this story, follow Jessica Willey on Facebook , X and |rtx| nrj| gcp| rzb| kkx| ccc| ult| aww| nqt| ecc| zom| blj| pzp| gfq| cnf| smv| bmg| odi| ykg| vhd| kch| iam| sjn| uri| trj| arr| whe| haj| wnl| utd| xfo| abj| rut| xiu| gpe| aqv| xuc| tuc| lgp| vep| hzk| ibq| fie| kue| gsa| fed| omz| jeg| vcb| eao|