Houston, TX, United States
Origins of Freedman's Town. Located in Houston's Fourth Ward, the original Freedman's Town settlement was founded soon after the emancipation of enslaved blacks on June 19, 1865, at the end of the Civil War in Texas. Positioned west of downtown and directly south of Buffalo Bayou, the community grad
ually expanded to the south and west during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Freedman's Town quickly became the economic and cultural center of Houston's African American population, growing th
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