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The African Methodist Episcopalian Church foundations are becoming stabilized and the San Pedro Creek Culture Park moves forward.

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Harvard honors San Antonio landscape architect for preserving Black historical sites FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 Local historian Everett Fly points to a cedar fence post on the northern boundary of the site of the Winters-Jackson cemetery, an African American graveyard on the northeast side that dates back to the late 1800s, on Thursday, May 31, 2018. In 1986, without consent, land developers removed the remains of 72 people from the private cemetery and reinterred them at nearby Holy Cross Cemet...

Editorial: Cemeterys designation would honor past, present Express-News Editorial Board FacebookTwitterEmail In this photo from January, 2020, the Hockley-Clay Cemetery has been cleared and marked. It’s taken one more step toward an official historic designation, and with it preservation of a piece of San Antonio’s Black history.Josie Norris /The San Antonio Express-News History is what we cherish; neglected gardens we discover and nurture, special people we won’t allow to be forgotten. W...

Final public meeting set on historic Black church site on San Pedro Creek in San Antonio FacebookTwitterEmail Work continues on the San Pedro Creek project by the Alameda Theater, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. Crews work on the Houston Street bridge by the foundations of the 1800’s St. James AME Church, one of the oldest Black churches in Texas, (left). The public has until March 8 to weigh in on eight redesign options for the site as part of the San Pedro Creek Culture Park.Jerry Lara /San Antonio...

Descendants reclaim land that was part of lost family cemetery Work begins on historic designations for Hockley-Clay Cemetery Updated:  Tags:  SAN ANTONIO – The original Hockley-Clay Family Cemetery in Northeast San Antonio is now complete. About 6,000 square feet that wound up in two neighboring backyards decades ago have been reclaimed by the descendants of Jane Warren, a freed slave who had a ranch in the area after the Civil War. The Northern Hills subdivision borders the cemetery on on...

Alamo Heights alums seek fellow Black pioneers who integrated the San Antonio suburbs schools FacebookTwitterEmail Two people talk in the shadows in a hallway at Alamo Heights High School in 1962. Alamo Heights Independent School District, which previously had been white-only, integrated in 1955 with four children from the John Henry Smith family, who lived in Olmos Park.Courtesy / Alamo Heights ISD My friend Everett Fly, who is a National for the Humanities medalist, and I, both Alamo Heights ...