Booker T Washington High School
October 05, 2018
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Booker T Washington High School
Booker T Washington Elementary is the first HISD African American School renamed between 1911 and 1913 in honor of Booker T. Washington. During the time, it was the only school to be named after a living person. Booker T. Washington was admired by many and considered the wizard of Tuskegee. Therefore, when his name...
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Reliving Camp Logan 1917 Houston Riot and Mutiny At Fort Sam Houston
October 04, 2018
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It is important to tell our stories from our perspective. What I have realized is that no one perspective is the same. There is no wrong or right. Our experiences and environment divides us on seeing eye to eye on many things especially on racial issues. I had the pleasure and opportunity to participate and tour Fort Sam Houston on September 28, 20...
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Houston Freedmen's Town
September 20, 2015
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Houston Freedmen's Town 8.5x8.5-60 page full color paperback pictorial history of some of the remaining structures in Freemen's Town. Each book sells for $25 and part of the proceeds will be donated to Freedmen's Town Preservation Coalition.
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Trinity United Methodist Church
August 08, 2014
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Trinity United Methodist Church is the oldest African-American congregation in Houston and the first brick church in Texas. The church's cornerstone was laid on March 2, 1843 on a 50 feet x 60 feet lot located on Milam Street. "Records reflect that in the afternoon the Presiding Elder preached to 32 Negro members in the same house in which the whit...
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Cultural Understanding & Education through Historic Preservation
July 08, 2014
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Freedmen's Town is one if the most endangered, Post Civil War, National Register Historic Districts of its kind in the United States. Freedmen's Town was founded by previously enslaved people and their descendants immediately after Emancipation in 1865.
Since its designation as a National District in 1985, over 500 Freedmen's Town historic structu...
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