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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Emancipation Park
July 07, 2014
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On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln signed and published the Emancipation Proclamation; however, Texas did get the news until June 19, 1865 when General Granger proclaimed the slaves freedom in Galveston. For African Americans, June 19, the anniversary of the day, took on festive traditions and a new name, Juneteenth.
Reverend Jack Yates colle...
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Texas Southern University
July 07, 2014
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Reverend Jack Yates and two missionaries, Jennie L. Peck and Florence Dysart, founded The Baptist Academy at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in 1885. The Baptist Academy provided opportunities for the former slaves to help them learn about God and develop educationally, economically, and socially. The freed African Americans learned how to read,...
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