Sharon Fletcher, executive director of Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy, preserves America's oldest black settlement with Juneteenth events and restoration.

Doris Ellis Robinson, founder and president of the Freedmen’s Town Preservation Coalition, reported that contractors damaged historic bricks in Houston’s Fourth Ward. “You cannot get this ...

The Houston Freedmen’s Town Conservancy is hosting its annual Juneteenth Fest with an urgent theme this year. This Juneteenth, one of the first communities created by newly freed Black Texans ...

The bricks in Freedmen's Town were laid in part by formerly enslaved African Americans during the latter part of the 19th century. Some of them also were unearthed in 2016.

Topic American South Freedmen's Bureau Reconstruction, U.S. history, 1865-1877 Slaves -- Emancipation Provenance Acquired from FamilySearch International in 2015. See more items in Records of the ...