Riverside Terrace, Houston, Texas
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Riverside Terrace is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, United States.
Riverside Terrace is located along the Brays Bayou.
Jewish families moved to Riverside Terrace in the 1930s since they were not allowed to settle in River Oaks. In the 1950s a wealthy African-American cattleman named Jack Caesar moved to the neighborhood. He stayed despite the fact that a bomb detonated on his front porch. Many White families left Riverside Terrace and settled in suburbs. In the 1960s some Whites who wanted the neighborhood to stabilize as an integrated neighborhood posted signs stating "This Is Our Home It Is Not For Sale." Jon Schwartz, creator of the 1985 documentary This Is Our Home It Is Not For Sale, a film documenting Riverside Terrace, states that the neighborhood stabilized after 1970.[1]
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The neighborhood is zoned to schools in the Houston Independent School District.[1]
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