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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Texas Southern University (redirect from Houston College for Negroes)
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 (2020 film) (redirect from Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One: Harley Quinn)
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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Juneteenth (redirect from Emancipation Day (Texas))
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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Interstate 45 (redirect from Gulf Freeway (Houston))
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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Shell Energy Stadium (redirect from New Houston Dynamo Stadium)
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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American Civil War (section Emancipation)
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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Richard W. Dowling (redirect from Dick Dowling (Houston))
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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Little Saigon (redirect from Little Saigon, Houston, TX)
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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Abraham Lincoln (section Emancipation Proclamation)
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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Jefferson Davis Highway (redirect from Emancipation Highway)
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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