Preserve Historic Freedmen's Town
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Freedmen's Town Preservation Coalition needs your help.
Freedmen's Town represents living history that is evidence of African American accomplishments, prosperity, culture, faith, and society within a larger society. The Freedmen founded and settled Freedmen's Town, a swampy terrain along the Buffalo Bayou that "no white man could have worked or lived and endured the insect bites and malaria, snake bites, impure water and other hardships." However, the Freedmen survived and thrived in-spite of the obstacles.
Today, only 30 structures and 7/10s of a mile brick streets remain. However, it still represents the the ancestors' spirit and hope for the future of the race. Since July, we have been going before City Council asking the Mayor to Rethink Houston and how to save the last vestige of Historic 4th Ward to no avail.
"On January 20, the judge granted us a Temporary Restraining Order. On January 28, a different judge ordered mediation. On February 4, mediation was held with no resolution.
"We are now asking your help for legal funds as the case continues. The money is needed immediately and we are requesting any amount you may chose to give in our effort to save the legacy of the work and spirit of the Freedmen. They left a gift for us to pay forward to future generations.
Won't you help?
Thank you for your consistency and not being silent about History that Matters. "Our lives begin to end when we become silent about those things that matter"
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedmen's Town represents living history that is evidence of African American accomplishments, prosperity, culture, faith, and society within a larger society. The Freedmen founded and settled Freedmen's Town, a swampy terrain along the Buffalo Bayou that "no white man could have worked or lived and endured the insect bites and malaria, snake bites, impure water and other hardships." However, the Freedmen survived and thrived in-spite of the obstacles.
Today, only 30 structures and 7/10s of a mile brick streets remain. However, it still represents the the ancestors' spirit and hope for the future of the race. Since July, we have been going before City Council asking the Mayor to Rethink Houston and how to save the last vestige of Historic 4th Ward to no avail.
"On January 20, the judge granted us a Temporary Restraining Order. On January 28, a different judge ordered mediation. On February 4, mediation was held with no resolution.
"We are now asking your help for legal funds as the case continues. The money is needed immediately and we are requesting any amount you may chose to give in our effort to save the legacy of the work and spirit of the Freedmen. They left a gift for us to pay forward to future generations.
Won't you help?
Thank you for your consistency and not being silent about History that Matters. "Our lives begin to end when we become silent about those things that matter"
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Organizer
Priscilla T. Graham
Organizer
Texas, TX
