The Urban Edge: Two Houston Neighborhoods, Historically Divided Along Racial Lines, Partner in the Face of Change
As a kid in the 1980s, Bolivar Fraga remembers the Waco Street bridge across Interstate 10 as a dividing line. Latinos lived to the south, in the Second Ward. Blacks lived to the north, in the Fifth Ward. Fraga lived in Second Ward. If you rode your bike across the bridge, he said, “you were taking a risk.”
