Freedmen's Town Then & Now

by Priscilla T Graham and Charonda Johnson

Freedmen's Town Immediately west of downtown Houston lies the city's oldest Indigenous African American community affectionally known as Historic Freedmen's Town located in Fourth Ward. Wards were established in 1841. Although the ward system was officially discontinued in 1906, Houstonians continued to identify the city's various communities by those political subdivisions. Freedmen's Town was established immediately after the Civil War on the southern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 195382403X
• ISBN13: 9781953824035
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Priscilla Graham Photography & Publishing
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 8.5"