The Red Diary





					HOWARD JAMES JONES has taught school at the college level for more than twenty years. Since 1985, he has been associate professor of history at Prairie View A&M University. He has also served as research assistant, parasocial worker and counselor, and has held teaching positions at Houston International University, Texas Southern University, Houston Community College, Rhode Island College, and Grambling State University. He received his doctorate in American studies at Washington State University in 1975. Dr.]ones is founder and executive secretary-treasurer of the Southern Conference of Afro-American Studies, Inc. and serves as a board member of the Fannie Lou flamer Living Fund and the American Cowboy Museum. He has appeared on numerous radio and television programs and for three years was author of a coluronn wbich appeared in ten newspapers throughout the United States. A native of Benton, Louisiana, he is married and the father of two children. Howard James Jones Reminiscing Before Sleeping S.C.A.S.S.I. Griot Calendar Benton Reunion Club Bossier Parish Recognition Organization
			The history of blacks in the Houston area began upon their arrival under the Spanish in the second decade of the Nineteenth Century. What followed was a pattern of revoked promises and insurmountable obstacles that were being duplicated on the national level. But amid such struggle, Houston-area blacks progressively laid a strong foundation for success. Despite the reign of the Ku Klux Klan, the segregation movement, the "Red Summer" of 1919, and numerous other incidents of persecution, blacks in Houston have responded with the development of social, business, and political organizations, the establishment of higher education opportunities, leadership in government and the record continues to grow. In this chronological work, a clear perspective is shown on the progression of Houston-area black citizens. Using a diary format, the book illustrates the step-by-step process that has evolved over more than a century as a metropolis grew. It is a concentrated history of a city and the black citizens who helped it to change and respond to universal problems.