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    Emancipation Park and Emancipation Community Center are located at 3018 Emancipation Ave in the Third Ward area of Houston. It is the oldest park in Houston...
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  • Emancipation Park may refer to: Emancipation Park (Houston), a park in Houston, Texas, United States Emancipation Park (Kingston, Jamaica), a park in Kingston...
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    Houston History Magazine. pp. 31–35. George, Cindy (June 17, 2017). "Community celebrates $33.6M makeover of Houston's Emancipation Park". Houston Chronicle...
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  • Jack Yates (category Clergy from Houston)
    Baptist Church; and Houston's Emancipation Park. He died in 1897. Yates' original Houston home, the Jack Yates House, was donated to Houston's Heritage Society...
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  • University of Houston (/ˈhjuːstən/ ; HEW-stən) is a public research university in Houston, Texas. It was established in 1927 as Houston Junior College...
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    Black mecca Third Ward Emancipation Park (Houston) History of African Americans in Texas History of the African Americans in Houston Riverside Terrace Other...
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    they named it Emancipation Park. There are several events throughout Houston commemorating this occasion. The Friends of Emancipation Park (FEP), a non-profit...
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  • Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (also known as Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey or simply Birds of Prey) is a 2020 American...
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    for the purchase of 10 acres (4 ha) of land, today known as Houston's Emancipation Park, to celebrate Juneteenth. The observation was soon drawing thousands...
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    preservation of Houston's historic Third Ward. It provided $750,000 for the Emancipation Park Conservancy's rededication of Emancipation Park in 2016, $2...
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    Street, St. Joseph Parkway, and Dowling Street (now Emancipation Avenue), is the older of the two Houston Chinatowns. The East Downtown Chinatown is not the...
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  • Richard Allen (community leader) (category Politicians from Houston)
    American person to seek statewide office in Texas. Allen co-founded Houston's Emancipation Park in 1872. Allen was born into slavery in Richmond, Virginia. He...
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    of Houston, elevated collector–distributor roads (also part of Spur 5) begin. The collector–distributor roads and the HOV lane end at Emancipation Avenue...
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    The Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Freedman's Memorial or the Emancipation Group was a monument in Park Square in Boston. Designed and sculpted...
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    of Sam Houston and the course of Texas History --Memorial slab at burial site of Margaret Lea Houston and Nancy Moffette Lea After emancipation and Margaret's...
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    Wayback Machine." City of Houston. Retrieved on July 17, 2009. "Emancipation Park". City of Houston. Retrieved 2020-05-11. "Houston budget plan includes city...
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    bordered by Texas, Walker, Emancipation, and Hutchins in East Downtown and east of Interstate 69/U.S. Route 59 and Downtown Houston. In June 2009, negotiations...
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    January 20, 2022. "Andrew Johnson and Emancipation in Tennessee – Andrew Johnson National Historic Site". National Park Service. Harper, Douglas (2003). "Slavery...
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  • Eldorado Ballroom (category Buildings and structures in Houston)
    Ballroom is a former nightclub in the Third Ward, Houston, on the other side of the road from Emancipation Park. The white brick and stucco Art Moderne building...
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    imprisoned, or lynched. According to a legend, Houston told his slaves that they were free after reading the Emancipation Proclamation (September 22, 1862) to them...
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    the American Civil War and news of emancipation spurred an influx of former slaves from the countryside into Houston. The town's incumbent black residents...
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    Street Be Renamed?". Houston Public Media. "Houston's Dowling Street To Be Renamed Emancipation Avenue | Houston Public Media". Houston Public Media. Associated...
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    months of Reconstruction. Juneteenth commemorates the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston by General Gordon Granger, almost two and a...
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    Juneteenth gatherings — including Houston's Emancipation Park, Mexia's Booker T. Washington Park, and Emancipation Park in Austin. Brown died in 1895, just...
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    the Vietnamese community in Houston. The boundaries are IH 69/US 59, Preston Street, St. Joseph Parkway and Emancipation Avenue. Vietnamese street signs...
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    MacGregor Park-Neagle Field is a park and baseball venue in the Third Ward, Houston, Texas, and the home field of the Texas Southern Tigers baseball team...
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    Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America. New York, New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-2182-5. Harrison, J. Houston (1935)...
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    rename all remaining portions of Jefferson Davis Highway in Virginia to Emancipation Highway beginning on January 1, 2022. The bill was approved by the State...
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    her 2001 film Glitter, she returned to the top of the charts with The Emancipation of Mimi (2005), one of the best-selling albums of the 21st century. Carey's...
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    Abolitionist Societies in the North. It ran north and grew steadily until the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln. The escapees...
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