Editing Vidor, Texas (section)

==History==
The area was heavily logged after the construction of the [[Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway]] that was later part of a line that ran from [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]] to Port Arthur, Texas. The city was named after lumberman Charles Shelton Vidor, owner of the Miller-Vidor Lumber Company and father of director [[King Vidor]]. By 1909, the Vidor community had a post office and four years later a company tram road was built. Almost all Vidor residents worked for the company. In 1924, the Miller-Vidor Lumber Company moved to Lakeview, just north of Vidor, in search of virgin timber. A small settlement remained and the Miller-Vidor subdivision was laid out in 1929. Vidor was incorporated in 1960.<ref name="About Us" />

Vidor had a reputation as a "'''[[sundown town]]'''", where [[African American]]s are not allowed after sunset.<ref name="Texas-Monthly 2020 Jun 6" /><ref name="Loewen 2005" /> In 1993, after district court judge [[William Wayne Justice]] ordered that 36 counties in [[East Texas]], including Vidor, desegregate public housing by making some units available for minorities, the [[Ku Klux Klan]] held a march in the community after a long legal battle was lost by Vidor's leaders. Church leaders held a well-attended prayer rally in opposition to the KKK hatred.<ref name="CNN 2006 Dec 13" /><ref name="Baltimore-Sun 1993 Sep 3" /><ref name="LATimes 1993 Sep 3" /> After four Black families moved into the complex, the residents suffered racial threats, including a bomb threat to the complex. All nine Black residents eventually moved out under this pressure.<ref name="WaPo 1993 Sep 3" /> One of the residents, Bill Simpson, was interviewed about his negative experiences while living there. "I've had people who drive by and tell me they're going home to get a rope and come back and hang me. . . ."<ref name="WaPo 1993 Sep 3" /> During the [[George Floyd protests]] of 2020, Black Lives Matter held a rally in Vidor that was attended by a diverse crowd of 150–200 people.<ref name="Texas-Monthly 2020 Jun 6" /><ref name="The-Independent 2020 Jun 18" />

In 2005, 2008, and 2017, Vidor and surrounding areas suffered extensive damage from, respectively, [[Hurricane Rita|Hurricanes Rita]], [[Hurricane Ike|Ike]] and [[Hurricane Harvey|Harvey]]. A mandatory evacuation was imposed upon its residents for about two weeks.