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3.3 Other famous and notable East Texans 12.2 JFK assassination Main articles: Texas Revolution Convention of 1836 Texas Declaration of Independence Treaties of Velasco and Republic of Texas. Comancheria before 1850 The Lyric Centre sits in the heart of the Theater District just across the street from the Wortham Center and adjacent to the Alley Theatre the black-and-white striped office building houses dozens of law firms but the block on which the tower sits is perhaps best known for the giant cellist playing outside. It is the work of sculptor David Addickes who also created the statue of Sam Houston outside Huntsville Texas. Main article: Battle of the Alamo In 1901 the Democratic-dominated state legislature passed a bill requiring payment of a poll tax for voting which effectively disenfranchised most blacks and many poor whites and Latinos in addition the legislature established white primaries ensuring minorities were excluded from the formal political process the number of voters dropped dramatically and the Democrats crushed competition from the Republican and Populist parties the Socialist Party became the second-largest party in Texas after 1912 coinciding with a large socialist upsurge in the United States during fierce battles in the labor movement and the popularity of national heroes like Eugene V Debs the Socialists' popularity soon waned after their vilification by the United States government for their opposition to US involvement in World War I. The mass-bombing of cities in Europe and Asia has often been called a war crime although no positive or specific customary international humanitarian law with respect to aerial warfare existed before or during World War II the USAAF firebombed a total of 67 Japanese cities killing 393,000 civilians and destroying 65% of built-up areas. The city of Houston has a strong mayoral form of municipal government. Houston is a home rule city and all municipal elections in the Texas are nonpartisan the city's elected officials are the mayor city controller and 16 members of the Houston City Council the current mayor of Houston is Sylvester Turner a Democrat elected on a nonpartisan ballot Houston's mayor serves as the city's chief administrator executive officer and official representative and is responsible for the general management of the city and for seeing that all laws and ordinances are enforced. Texas Consultation and the Matamoros Expedition County government Satellite image of Downtown Houston Further information: List of companies in Houston One Shell Plaza. Society Reconstruction 2000 1,953,631 19.8% US President Franklin D Roosevelt and British PM Winston Churchill seated at the Casablanca Conference January 1943, Aftermath Houston first started shipping cotton lumber and other manufacturing products Alexander McGowen established the iron industry and Tom Whitmarsh built a cotton warehouse a fire ravaged Houston on March 10 1859 but the city rebuilt itself soon after.[citation needed]. Houston (county seat) (small parts in Fort Bend and Montgomery counties), 131 Alma Allen Democratic 2004 far Southwest Houston and far South Side, See also: List of shopping malls in Texas.

. Main article: Goliad Campaign Preterm birth Tejano is perhaps the most misunderstood of popular Houston musical styles because it is often classified as a style of Latin music although the word "tejano" means Texan reflecting the genre's roots in southern and central Texas during the 19th century Modern Tejano music is usually a fusion style combining the common historical elements of conjunto styles based around the accordion and bajo sexto with popular American styles --- most often country R&B or rock Within tejano music Houston forged a distinctively modern sound that began with pop and rock fusions using electronic keyboards and synthesizers the style was popularized in the 1980s and 1990s by the Grammy-award-winning Houston tejano band La Mafia but which was thrust into a national and international spotlight by young female performer Selena Selena's younger brother A.B Quintanilla through his band Kumbia Kings would further push the Houston style of tejano even further by fusing it with hip-hop to create songs that appealed to a younger more urban audience. Prisoner identity photograph taken by the German SS of a Polish girl deported to Auschwitz Approximately 230,000 children were held prisoner and used in forced labor and medical experiments, For decades the infant mortality rate in Texas was higher than the nationwide rate but that gap has slowly closed in 2017 the infant mortality rate in Texas was identical to the nationwide rate: 5.9 deaths per 1,000 live births. This rate is not identical across the state of Texas and studies have found significant disparities between zip codes for example the 76164 zip code has an infant mortality rate of 12.3 deaths per 1,000 live births while the neighboring 76107 zip code has a rate of 1.8 deaths per 1,000 live births. Additionally Black families in Texas are disproportionately burdened by these rates in 2015 the infant mortality rate for Black babies in Texas was 10.9 deaths per 1,000 births. These disparities can be explained by factors such as socioeconomic status air pollution and access to health care. The vague unrest erupted into armed conflict on October 2 1835 at the Battle of Gonzales when Texans repelled a Mexican attempt to retake a small cannon. This launched the Texas Revolution and over the next three months the Texian Army successfully defeated all Mexican troops in the region. . . . Despite the region's high rate of automobile usage attitudes towards transportation among Houstonians indicate a growing preference for walkability a 2017 study by the Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research found that 56% of Harris County residents have a preference for dense housing in a mixed-use walkable setting as opposed to single-family housing in a low-density area a plurality of survey respondents also indicated that traffic congestion was the most significant problem facing the metropolitan area in addition many households in the city of Houston have no car in 2015 8.3 percent of Houston households lacked a car which was virtually unchanged in 2016 (8.1 percent) the national average was 8.7 percent in 2016 Houston averaged 1.59 cars per household in 2016 compared to a national average of 1.8.