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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend Freedmen Site Visit and Nature Walk
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend Freedmen Site Visit and Nature Walk
Draw Your Own Conclusions...
Create Your Own Narrative
Draw Your Own Conclusions...
Create Your Own Narrative
Old City Park hosted Dallas’s own Confederate Memorial, starting April 27, 1897, with funds provided by the Daughters of the Confederacy. The Memorial stood there until 1961, when the atrocity was moved to the Pioneer Cemetery adjacent to the Dallas Convention Center.
Let's Explore...
Let's Explore...
Joppa hosted the first Juneteenth festivities in what is now known as Dallas... celebrating the day the Emancipation Proclamation came into effect for Texans, June 19,1865.
Henry Critz Hines helped to found a community of Joppa Freedmen in 1872, along with other freed slaves from the Miller Plantation. The Joppa Community is one of the best, if not only, preserved Freedmen’s communities left in the United States. And Hines became one of the most prosperous entrepreneurs in the USA.
What more can we find out about where Joppa starts and ends?
Miller Log Cabin is said to have been built in 1847 by the enslaved that later became some of the first Freedmen in Dallas. Arch and Charlotte Miller were two Freedmen to live in the log house.
Read more: https://www.city-data.com/articles/Millermore-Mansion-in-Dallas.html
https://www.visitdallas.com/hubs/african-american-culture-black-dallas.html
What do you image, was integral to Freedmen life, in this cabin?
Is The Gano Log Cabin still located in Dallas Heritage Village? It is said, R.M. Gano, a confederate soldier, lived in the cabin with at least 6 slaves.
https://dallastrht.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/12182839/DTRHT-Report.pdf page 18
What do you know about confederate responsibilities, to serve in the civil war, that would warrant having “at least six slaves?”
The Shotgun House was originally located at 2807 Guillot, Dallas. Records show the Freedmen owner was Eula A McCray, born about 1896. The house was built in 1906. It is a three-room house. And had been occupied by working-class Black families throughout the first half of the twentieth century. The story is... the house was moved and preserved to build the Woodall Rodgers freeway.
See: https://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/Texas/Eula-A-McCray_5jx8yr/amp
See Image of 1940 Census Record:
From here, we visit the Joppa Preserve and take an easy going nature walk. But as you walk, remember (and never forget) you are on former plantation land. And never forget what it must have been like to be enslaved on this land. Because... what we forget, we are doomed to repeat.
“We heal by Restorative Justice, Restitution and Reparations.”
“We heal by Restorative Justice, Restitution and Reparations.”
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