Texas Southern University students hold a sit-in demonstration in 1960 at Weingarten supermarket near Houston's Riverside Terrace neighborhood.

There is no history of Houston without the history of its neighborhoods that were carved out of the vast prairie along the bayou when the city was founded.

The dirt roads lined with wildflowers grew into freeways with fast cars. The city sprawled from a small downtown into endless miles of the suburbs.

But history, even of Houston, depends on the stories that are told and retold, sometimes with missing facts.

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When I recently wrote about the untold segregation story of Riverside Terrace, I shared that the area was originally inhabited by a colony of Black families who settled on the unplatted and unincorporated land. They were moved out so developers could turn it into one of the largest residential communities in the city in 1924. Black people were forbidden from buying property there, just as in the more exclusive River Oaks development across town, where Jewish people were also not........

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