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Blacks had been permanently driven out of Vidor seventy years ago, and for that effort the town had earned an enduring label as a bastion of white supremacy. Or, as it would be called by the...
3. James Byrd Jr. (May 2, 1949 – June 7, 1998) was an African American man who was murdered by three white men, two of whom were avowed white supremacists, in Jasper, Texas, on June 7, 1998. Shawn Berry, Lawrence Brewer, and John King dragged him for three miles (five kilometers) behind a Ford pickup truck along an asphalt road.
25 de may. de 2021 · Much of the history of Vidor in the first half of the 20th century is anecdotal, with stories of Klan night-riders assaulting or killing black people, and driving them out of town.
6 de nov. de 2006 · They drove out black residents. Today, nearly all of the town's 11,440 residents are white. But Anderson found something else in Vidor: a form of American poverty that has essentially...
14 de dic. de 2006 · One of the most memorable instances of that was in 1993, when the federal government tried to change years of racial separation, and brought a handful of black families into Vidor's public...
Vidor had a reputation as a "sundown town", where African Americans are not allowed after sunset. [4] [5] In 1993, after district court judge William Wayne Justice ordered that 36 counties in East Texas , including Vidor, desegregate public housing by making some units available for minorities, the Klan held a march in the community ...
5 de nov. de 2019 · Dianne Dentice. Abstract. Vidor, Texas is a town learning to manage its past with the Ku Klux Klan and the subsequent legacy of racial intolerance it now carries into the twenty-first century. By utilizing oral history, interviews with the residents (current and former) clarify how Vidorians see their past and form a collective memory.
