“Black Houston” Raw Footage (1968)

Duration: 11:19

Year Published: 1968

Sound: sound

Description: In this raw footage, an unidentified Texas Southern University student interviews Professor Eugene Harrington about racial inequality. Harrington, a professor in TSU’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law, focuses on the ways in which systemic racism can often go unnoticed, such as differences in city garbage collection between predominantly black and white neighborhoods. He then describes a possible course of action for change. The conversation continues after the interview, as the interviewer talks about the Houston Riot of 1917. The interview was likely conducted as part of a student documentary about the history of Houston’s African-American community, possibly entitled “Black Houston.”