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Texas Southern University

Houston, TX
Jim Crow

Founded in 1927 as a response to Houston's Black community's demands for equal access to higher education, Texas Southern University is now the most comprehensive HBCU in Texas, home to the Thurgood Marshall School of Law named for its most famous graduate.

Counter-Narrative

The myth this site refutes: that Black communities lacked investment in learning. HBCUs and freedom schools existed before many white institutions.

Before & After This Era

← Before · Reconstruction

→ After · Great Migration

Sites in Conversation

"Shared theme: Education & HBCUs"

"Shared theme: Education & HBCUs"

"Shared theme: Education & Civil Rights"