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  2. Zora Neale Hurston - Wikipedia

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    Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891: 17 : 5 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker.She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou.

  3. History of the Jews in Houston - Wikipedia

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    History. Until 1880 Houston had a smaller Jewish population than Galveston Island, then the cultural center of the state. In 1844, the first Jewish cemetery in Houston was established. In 1850, the Jewish community in Houston had 17 adults and in 1854, the Orthodox Beth Israel Congregation opened in a former house that had been converted to a ...

  4. History of Mexican Americans in Houston - Wikipedia

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    The city of Houston has significant populations of Mexican Americans, Mexican immigrants, and Mexican citizen expatriates. Houston residents of Mexican origin make up the oldest Hispanic ethnic group in Houston, and Jessi Elana Aaron and José Esteban Hernández, authors of "Quantitative evidence for contact-induced accommodation: Shifts in /s/ reduction patterns in Salvadoran Spanish in ...

  5. History of African Americans in Houston - Wikipedia

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    Between 1910 and 1970 the African American population ranged from 21% to 32.7%. [3] In 1870 36% of the African-Americans in Houston lived in the Fourth Ward, 29% lived in the Third Ward, 16% lived in the Fifth Ward, and 19% lived in other areas. In 1910 the plurality now lived in the Third Ward, with 32%; the Fourth Ward, Fifth Ward, and other ...

  6. Magen David Sephardic Congregation - Wikipedia

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    Later, services were held at Ohr Kodesh, a Conservative synagogue in Chevy Chase. By 1984, the congregation had purchased a building in Rockville, and by 1987, had its first rabbi. Due to surging membership, the congregation needed a larger space. By 1998, prayers were being held in a new synagogue that was built in North Bethesda.

  7. Diaspora (social network) - Wikipedia

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    Diaspora (stylized as diaspora*) is a nonprofit, user-owned, distributed social network. It consists of a group of independently owned nodes (called pods ) which interoperate to form the network. The social network is not owned by any one person or entity, keeping it from being subject to corporate take-overs or advertising.

  8. History of Central Americans in Houston - Wikipedia

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    In 1980 there were 5,400 Central American immigrants in Greater Houston. [3] In the 1980s, Due to social political problems, [4] a wave of immigration from Central America occurred, [5] with people from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua arriving. In 1990, there were 47,244 Central Americans in Harris County, with 83% of them being ...

  9. Indian diaspora - Wikipedia

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    Though the Indian diaspora in the US is largely concentrated in metropolitan areas surrounding cities such as New York City, Washington D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco – almost every metropolitan area in the United States has a community of Indians. Oceania Australia