Reader Bob Erlich asked about preservation efforts in Houston’s Freedmen’s Town, the historic space just west of downtown where an African-American community emerged and thrived following the Civil ...

formerly enslaved people left rural areas in east Texas for what was then a relatively young city of Houston. Freedmen’s Town experienced swift growth. Antioch Missionary Baptist Church was ...

Houston’s Freedmen’s Town exists. Still ... On Juneteenth 2021, a holiday with its foundations in Texas, Turner’s administration, working with the city council, designated Freemen's Town ...