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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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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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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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