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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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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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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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College Memorial Park Cemetery
June 20, 2014 - The College Memorial Park Cemetery, located in historic fourth ward was founded in 1896 and is one of Houston's oldest A...
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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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Even In Death Veterans Must Not Be Forgotten
June 18, 2014 - Nestled in the shadows of Houston's Fifth Ward located east of downtown sits the historic Evergreen Negro Cemetery. Ther...
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