The public housing project in Vidor is under a continuing order requiring desegregation of the project.
See Young v. Pierce, 685 F.Supp. 986 (E.D.Tex.1988). The summary judgment record shows that efforts to desegregate the housing project have encountered strong opposition from the Klan. Residents of the housing project and Vidor public officials have reported numerous threats and acts of intimidation by the Klan. Black residents who moved into the project received harassing phone calls and persons tried to break into their apartment. The mayor of Vidor reported receiving a warning that the Klan intended to hang her in “black effigy.” In a state court proceeding against the Klan, a witness testified that a Klan member declared at a rally that “[t]here's going to be blood in the streets of Vidor.” As a result of the attempts by the Klan to deter desegregation of the project, a Texas district court deemed it necessary to enter an injunction against the Klan prohibiting the Klan from intimidating residents, from demonstrating at the project entrance and from impeding access to or egress from the project.
Hale v. Texas Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, No. 93–074143 (261st Dist.Ct., Travis County, Tex., Feb. 3, 1994).