As the great State Fair of Texas draws to a close this year, we once again bid farewell to a welcoming cacophony of bright lights from the Midway that dot the...
, a popular annual football rivalry now played between Prairie View A&M University and Grambling State University, also has roots dating back to this one-day affair that began for Black teams in 1925.
When the mill finally opened in January 1902, Wiley employed a workforce of majority Black women and offered a considerable amount of job opportunities locally.
Smokey John’s is not the first Black vendor at the fair , but they are the longest-standing Black-owned vendor at the State Fair of Texas. The Reaves’ parents opened their first booth in 1978. The second-gen owners also spoke about their father’s legacy of advocating for many other minority-owned businesses to have an opportunity at the fair.
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