GOP leaders also shuttered C-SPAN's live coverage of the protest, but that did not stop policy makers from tweeting and posting live feeds on Facebook and Periscope to disseminate their cause.
Several Democratic lawmakers are prepared to wait out the night, possibly into the next few days.
Archives from ABC13 uncovered footage of protests right here in Houston in the 1960s. In March of 1960, protestors engaged in their first sit-in which took place at the Weingarten Supermarket on Almeda. Students from TSU marched to the Weingarten Supermarket to protest segregation at lunch counters. Watch the video below of the never-before-seen footage: […]
The memories from the segregation era are still seared painfully onto Otis King’s soul. How he had to ride on the back of the bus from his home in the Fifth Ward to downtown. How all the schools were segregated. How black people couldn’t even grab a ham sandwich at local deli counters. “It’s hard […]
