About the Author

Howard Beeth is associate professor of history at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Temple University and his doctorate from the University of Houston. He was head of the Afro-American Research Collection at the Houston Public Library's Metropolitan Research Center from 1981 to 1987 and has written several articles dealing with various aspects of the South. Cary D. Wintz is professor of history and director of academic computing at Texas Southern University. He received his bachelor's degree from Rice University and his master's and doctoral degrees from Kansas State University. He has written a number of articles on blacks in Houston and is the author of Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance (Rice University Press, 1988).