Restoring Freedmen's Town history
Driving through Houston's Freedmen's Town in Fourth Ward, you might notice parts of Andrews and Wilson Streets are made of bricks. But do you know they represent an architectural footpoint for our city's oldest African American neighborhood after the abolishment of slavery?
When the City of Houston finally approved their permit, it was the freedmen and their descendants who paid and laid down these brick roads themselves. "They had to be persistent. They had to be courageous. They had to collect mental and financial resources to build a community that they wanted to live in. When I look at them, I see them as a major example of opportunities that I have and that our citizens should have," said Doris Ellis Robinson, founder and president for the Freedmen's Town Preservation Coalition.
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