This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateA striking scene from the 1960s is often celebrated as a quintessential example of Houston’s business-minded approach to crisis aversion: The city’s white power brokers enter the Rice Hotel striding across the marble floors to gilded elevators while Black civil rights leaders must come in through the side door and use the freight elevator. They meet in a suite on the 17th floor and work out the details of a quiet revolution. Foley’s lunch counter opens to Black people without media glare, without boycotts by whites, without...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateA striking scene from the 1960s is often celebrated as a quintessential example of Houston’s business-minded approach to crisis aversion: The city’s white power brokers enter the Rice Hotel striding across the marble floors to gilded elevators while Black civil rights leaders must come in through the side door and use the freight elevator. They meet in a suite on the 17th floor and work out the details of a quiet revolution. Foley’s lunch counter opens to Black people without media glare, without boycotts by whites, without...WW…