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Far-right activists in Texas saw Vidor as their last redoubt, one of the few places untouched by the dismantling of the Jim Crow laws that had once enforced racial separation. The kkk believed that campaigning against desegregation would rejuvenate the dying organisation.
Charles Jones is a 62-year-old African-American man who lives in Beaumont. He told us when he was 19, he and three of his black friends were changing a flat tire on their broken down car in...
VIDOR, Texas — A group espousing white supremacist views seen demonstrating in Vidor on Saturday left town after getting a less than enthusiastic response.
VIDOR, Texas — A group of men espousing white supremacist views seen demonstrating in Vidor on Saturday have been issued citations by the city. On Saturday, August 5, 2023, at around 12:08...
Texas Monthly, the same magazine that described it as “the most hate-filled town in Texas” in 1993, went with the headline: “Black Lives Matter Comes to Vidor – Yes, Vidor”.
The story of this notorious East Texas city isn’t a simple racist fable. It’s a complicated tragedy about a society that has lost its way.
A peace march for George Floyd is scheduled to take place in Vidor, Texas—but given the town's racist history, some people aren't buying it.
