When the new year arrived at midnight on Jan. 1, 1863, the quiet of most of the region’s small towns and rural expanses might well have been briefly disturbed by church bells ringing out. But there’s ...
The Emancipation Proclamation will be read to commemorate the historic event that occurred in Galveston on June 19, 1865, two years after the proclamation was enacted. Galveston holds the distinction ...
Just seven years after they learned of their liberation, a group of formerly enslaved Black Texans banded together in 1872 to purchase Emancipation Park in Houston. The 10-acre park was meant to serve ...
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