The Texas State Fair had a human zoo in 1898 and 1899. This article is from the Dallas Daily Times Herald, 10/2/1898, page 10. It was mentioned in advertisements for the state fair in both the Dallas Morning News and the Dallas Daily Times Herald. It was one of the projects of Sydney Smith who ran the State Fair under the administration of State Fair President W.H. Gaston. Human zoos were a world-wide phenomenon in the 1890s where non-white people were exhibited.
W. H. Gaston and the Human Zoo at the Texas State Fair called the Antebellum Negro Village
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