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Booker T Washington High School
October 05, 2018 - Booker T Washington High School
Booker T Washington Elementary is the first HISD African American School renamed betwee...
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Reliving Camp Logan 1917 Houston Riot and Mutiny At Fort Sam Houston
October 04, 2018 - It is important to tell our stories from our perspective. What I have realized is that no one perspective is the same. T...
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Houston Freedmen's Town
September 20, 2015 - Houston Freedmen's Town 8.5x8.5-60 page full color paperback pictorial history of some of the remaining structures in Fr...
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Trinity United Methodist Church
August 08, 2014 - Trinity United Methodist Church is the oldest African-American congregation in Houston and the first brick church in Tex...
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Cultural Understanding & Education through Historic Preservation
July 08, 2014 - Freedmen's Town is one if the most endangered, Post Civil War, National Register Historic Districts of its kind in the U...
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Emancipation Park
July 07, 2014 - On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln signed and published the Emancipation Proclamation; however, Texas did get the new...
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Texas Southern University
July 07, 2014 - Reverend Jack Yates and two missionaries, Jennie L. Peck and Florence Dysart, founded The Baptist Academy at Antioch Mis...
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The Rutherford B.H. Yates Museum
July 02, 2014 - Freedom's Town, post Civil War community, founded by former slaves in 1865 immediately after the Emancipation proclamati...
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The Taylor-Stevenson Ranch
June 25, 2014 - The Taylor-Stevenson Ranch is the oldest ranch owned by African Americans in the United States. The 150 year old working...
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Houston Texans YMCA
June 25, 2014 - Houston Texans YMCA, located in historic Houston's South Park, a post-World War II development, on the corner of Martin...
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Buffalo Soldier Musuem
June 24, 2014 - The Buffalo Soldiers Museum in Houston, Texas was founded in 2000 to help preserve the legacy of the African American so...
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Antioch Missionary Baptist Church
June 24, 2014 - Nestled between giant skyscrapers in downtown Houston, the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church was founded by a small grou...
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Harrisburg Cemetery Houston, Texas
June 20, 2014 - Harrisburg Cemetery is the oldest African American cemetery in Houston. Some estimate that its origin began in the 1830s...
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