Based on 34 African American travel guides in the Texas Historical Commission's files, over 780 individual sites were listed in 43 communities across Texas. The types of resources run the gamut including restaurants and barbecue stands, barber shops and beauty salons, YMCAs and YWCAs, service stations and garages, hotels and tourist homes, doctors and dentists, lawyers and NAACP representatives, taverns and liquor stores, theatres and night clubs, and colleges.
For larger images: Texas poster, Texas map
Past interns researched selected sites in their chosen community and created posters that can be seen in the highlighted links below.
Locations across Texas (county, town, number of sites):
- Bell County: Temple (1)
- Bexar County: San Antonio (79)
- Bowie County: Texarkana (28)
- Brewster County: Big Bend (1)
- Brown County: Brownwood (8)
- Camp County: Pittsburg (2)
- Cass County: Atlanta (1)
- Cherokee County: Jacksonville (1)
- Culberson County: Van Horn (1)
- Dallas County: Dallas (83)
- El Paso County: El Paso (30)
- Ellis County: Waxahachie (3)
- Falls County: Marlin (1)
- Galveston County: Galveston (42), Hitchcock (5)
- Gregg County: Longview (5)
- Harris County: Houston (110)
- Harrison County: Marshall (15)
- Hopkins County: Sulphur Springs (5)
- Jefferson County: Beaumont (49), Port Arthur (29)
- Lamar County: Paris (7)
- Limestone County: Mexia (13)
- Lubbock County: Lubbock (1)
- McLennan County: Waco (36)
- Midland County: Midland (9)
- Montgomery County: Conroe (2)
- Navarro County: Corsicana (10)
- Nueces County: Corpus Christi (37)
- Orange County: Orange (10)
- Potter County: Amarillo (30)
- Rusk County: Henderson (11)
- Smith County: Tyler (19)
- Tarrant County: Fort Worth (41)
- Taylor County: Abilene (5)
- Tom Green County: San Angelo (7)
- Travis County: Austin (45), Del Valle (1)
- Victoria County: Victoria (2)
- Waller County: Prairie View (1)
- Wichita County: Wichita Falls (13)
- Wilbarger County: Vernon (1)
- Wood County: Hawkins (1)
