Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - Ko te nohoanga tuatahi o Houston i tu i te Paraire, Poutu-te-rangi 4, 1960 i te kaute kai o te toa kai o Weingarten i 4110 Almeda Road i Houston, Texas. Ko tēnei noho-i roto i te kore-tino, te whakaeke tika i arahina e neke atu i te tekau mā rua ngā ākonga o Te Whare Wānanga o Te Tonga o Texas. I whakaritea te noho-i roto i ki te whakahe ture wehe ture o Houston. I hui ngā ākonga ki te whare wānanga o Texas Southern University me te YMCA kei Wheeler Street ki te whakarite i te noho-i roto i. I kīia e rātau ko a rātau hui he 'rōpū whawhai'. I roto i ēnei hui, ka whakatakoto rautaki ngā ākonga pēnei i tētahi wae hōia mō te āhua o te whakakorenga i ngā ture whakakahoretanga o Houston. I whakapono rātau ko tō rātau huarahi rangimarie he rautaki hei whakakore i ngā mahi whakahāwea a Houston. I whai hua. Ko nga akonga i karanga i a ratou ano ko te Progressive Youth Association (PYA). I hangaia te PYA ki te whakatutuki i nga take hapori, torangapu me te ohanga e pa ana ki nga Amerikana-Awherika i Houston. I whakatenatenahia nga kaiako o Houston e nga akonga o North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, nana nei i whakahaere he nohoanga i Greensboro
, North Carolina i te Hui-tanguru 1, 1960.