Rice lecture looks at role of Camp Logan riot in Houston’s history, growth

Franz Brotzen
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Rice lecture looks at role of Camp Logan riot in Houston’s history, growth

The 1917 riot at Camp Logan  in what is today part of Memorial Park played a significant role in Houston’s history. It also challenged Houston’s self-image as a progressive city.

Karen Rosenthall, a third-year doctoral student in Rice University’s English Department, will discuss “Houston’s Rhetoric of Economic Progress and the 1917 Camp Logan Riot” Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. in Room 117 of the Humanities Building on the Rice campus.

The free lecture is open to the public and is part of the Scholars-in-Residence program, a partnership between The African-American Library at the Gregory School and Rice University’s HERE (Houston Enriches Rice Education) Project. The Scholars-in-Residence program assists fellows whose research can benefit from extended access to the Gregory School’s archives as well as the Woodson Archives in Rice’s Fondren Library.

A second lecture in this series, “Exploring the 1917 Camp Logan Riot’s Connection to Houston,” will take place at the African-American Library at the Gregory School, 1300 Victor St., Sept. 21 at 5 p.m.

For more information visit http://here.rice.edu/Scholars-in-Residence/.