Frustration was building among community members after they said the City of Houston wasn’t prioritizing a research center that was approved by voters in 2017.
HOUSTON — Houston is now digitizing much of its Latino History Archive after a push to fund and create a Hispanic History Research Center.
Many said they felt like the Latino community wasn't being taken seriously. They said they felt like an afterthought. It wasn’t until three Latinos joined City Council that they finally saw some movement on the project. But it wasn’t just that, many families who donated photos and archives to the library were frustrated because those things have been sitting in boxes for decades and haven't been digitized for the public.
At the end of Sylvester Turner's reign as mayor, the City of Houston allocated $19.5 million to move the project forward. They purchased an old warehouse on Navigation Boulevard that the Buffalo Bayou Partnership owned.
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