Black plaque № 25262

Huntsville, TX, United States

Sam Houston Industrial and Training School. Legislated after the close of the Civil War, the Texas Constitution of 1866 provided for a public school system supported by funds derived from property taxes; monies collected from African Americans would go to schools for their children. Although the law

continued to change during the next decades, the primary providers of African American education were the Freedmen's Bureau, churches, missionary associations and philanthropists. Samuel W. Houston (

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