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African American Library at the Gregory School , located in the Fourth Ward in HoustonThe African American population in Houston , Texas [ 1] Greater Houston area has the largest population of African Americans in Texas and west of the Mississippi River . Black Enterprise has referred to Houston as a Black mecca .[ 2]
^ Haley, John H. (University of North Carolina at Wilmington ). "Black Dixie: Afro-Texan History and Culture in Houston " (Book Review). The Georgia Historical Quarterly Available from JSTOR . CITED: p. 412. "Blacks were already present in Houston at the time of its founding in 1836,[...]"
^ Graves, Earl G. Sr. (December 8, 2016). "Join us in Houston, America's Next Great Black Business Mecca" . Black Enterprise . Archived from the original on August 20, 2019. Retrieved August 20, 2019 . 
