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Largest cities or towns in Texas See also: List of films set in Houston 12 Communities. . As of the 2015 Texas Population Estimate Program the population of the state was 27,469,114; non-Hispanic whites 11,505,371 (41.9%); Black Americans 3,171,043 (11.5%); other races 1,793,580 (6.5%); and Hispanics and Latinos (of any race) 10,999,120 (40.0%), Source: 2.7 1970s and integration Previously a largely rural area East Texas became more urban as workers were recruited for the oil shipbuilding and aircraft industries East Texans made many contributions to the war effort both at home and in the armed forces High schools had patriotic programs as well but so many teachers and older students left for the military or for defense jobs that budgets were cut programs dropped and the curriculum had to be scaled down Hospitals reported a shortage of supplies and medical personnel as many doctors and most of the younger nurses joined the services, The Texas Department of Criminal Justice operates some correctional facilities in Harris County including:.

In traditional cultures of the Stone Age Bronze Age and hunter-gatherer societies the warfare was mostly 'endemic' long duration low intensity usually evolving into almost a ritualized form by contrast Europe had moved to 'sporadic' warfare in the Middle Ages due to the availability of professionally mercenary armies.[citation needed] When Italy was ransacked by French and Spanish Armies in the early 1500s most Italian states were easily defeated by armies practicing sporadic-warfare Aztec and other native peoples practiced an endemic system of warfare as well and so were easily defeated by Spanish and Portuguese sporadic-warfare armies in the early 1500s, (17) 53 Two more significant tributaries of Buffalo Bayou flow through parts of Houston outside the Interstate 610 loop Greens Bayou which originates in far northwest Houston near Willowbrook flows for 43 miles (69 km) through Greenspoint and undeveloped areas of northeastern Harris County Sims Bayou which has its source near Missouri City southwest of Houston flows for 23 miles (37 km) past Almeda Sunnyside South Park and Manchester. . 12.4 Economic and demographic change Houston has the largest number of bike commuters in Texas with over 160 miles of dedicated bikeways the city is currently in the process of expanding its on and off street bikeway network.[when?] in 2015 Downtown Houston added a cycle track on Lamar Street running from Sam Houston Park to Discovery Green in August 2017 Houston City Council approved spending for construction of 13 additional miles of bike trails, Golden Triangle Klein School Trustee Pct 2 Pos 1 Marvin Morris Republican, Culture Racial violence continued by whites against blacks as they enforced white supremacy Despite this freedmen pursued education organized new churches and fraternal organizations and entered politics winning local offices By the 1890s more than 100,000 blacks were voting in state elections in 1896 and 1898 Republican Robert B Hawley was elected to Congress from the state by a plurality when most white voters split between the Democratic and Populist parties Democrats were determined to end competition by Republicans and Populists and reviewed what other Southern states were doing to disenfranchise blacks and poor whites Mississippi's new constitution of 1890 had survived a Supreme Court case although in practice it was highly discriminatory against freedmen. By the end of the day on March 16 the bulk of Urrea's forces began marching to Goliad to corner Fannin. Still waiting for word from King and Ward Fannin continued to delay his evacuation from Goliad as they prepared to leave on March 18 Urrea's advance guard arrived For the rest of the day the two cavalries skirmished aimlessly succeeding only in exhausting the Texian oxen which had remained hitched to their wagons with no food or water throughout the day. 138 Dwayne Bohac Republican 2002 Northwest Houston and parts of the Memorial/Spring Branch area north of I-10 Addicks Reservoir 8.4 Airports On 22 June 1941 Germany supported by Italy and Romania invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa with Germany accusing the Soviets of plotting against them They were joined shortly by Finland and Hungary the primary targets of this surprise offensive were the Baltic region Moscow and Ukraine with the ultimate goal of ending the 1941 campaign near the Arkhangelsk-Astrakhan line from the Caspian to the White Seas Hitler's objectives were to eliminate the Soviet Union as a military power exterminate Communism generate Lebensraum ("living space") by dispossessing the native population and guarantee access to the strategic resources needed to defeat Germany's remaining rivals. Transit Former United States Senators: Memorial Day storms in 2015 brought flash flooding to the city as some areas received 11 inches or more of rain overnight exacerbated by already full bayous at least three people died and more than 1,000 cars were stranded on highways and overpasses. Deer Park ISD, These Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks underlie most of the state and are exposed in three places: Llano uplift Van Horn and the Franklin Mountains near El Paso Sedimentary rocks overlay most of these ancient rocks the oldest sediments were deposited on the flanks of a rifted continental margin or passive margin that developed during Cambrian time, Harris County ESD #21 Dual Rosehill FD 1% .10!