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Segregated Houston: Black Life Beyond the Hedges

Join two eminent historians of Houston and Texas for a close look at black life and culture beyond the university (music and sports especially), and a discussion of what this larger world holds and has held for Rice.

A Zoom Webinar – April 14, 2021 – 6:00 p.m. CDT (7:00 p.m. EST)
Zoom ID: 925 4533 8296 • Passcode: 256011

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The world outside of the hedges profoundly impacted the state and nature of life at Rice both in its iteration as a whites-only institution and in its later incarnation as a desegregating university. In this first of a series of events on black Houston, two eminent historians of the region explore neighborhood life in the Jim Crow city and the place of sports as a lens through which to examine Houston’s twentieth century transformations. Join us for a discussion of how to understand Rice better by seeing more of Houston and the world beyond.

Participants

Frank Guridy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History, Columbia University
“The Dome & the Desegregation of Sports in Houston”

Tyina L. Steptoe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History, The University of Arizona
“Listening to Houston’s Communities of Color”