three things i learned during the Houston history presentation:
integration went smoothly in some parts Houston - when schools were forced to desegregate in the south most places started rioting, but in Houston the media agreed to not make a big deal of it and not talk about it for a few weeks. in most places schools started accepting students of all races and there were few protest.
a lot of neighborhoods in Houston were started by streetcar routes- a lot of streetcars in Houston went from populated areas to underdeveloped areas. the easy transportation into the city allowed people to spread out. one example of a "streetcar suburb" is the heights.
houston shipped 3 million bales of cotton a year around 1830 - after Galveston was distorted by a storm for the 100th time, business men moved all there shipping over to Houston because it was safer.
The part about desegregation really made an impact on you guys - almost everyone has mentioned it in his/her blog post! It is a unique story, as far as I know. Someone said, "The business of Houston is business." This is why I think that the desegregation went so smoothly. The hurricane of 1900 was devastating to Galveston and it was after this that Galveston built the Seawall.
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