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Inside the effort to preserve historic Freedmen’s Town Kennedi Robinson, Texas Southern University Published:  Tags:  From left to right: Gladys House, Charonda Johnson and Zion Escobar. (TSU) Going from just a settlement to becoming the “Black Wall Street” of Houston, Freedmen’s Town stands as the “Mother Ward” of the city in the Fourth Ward community. The historic hometown ensures that the stories and heritage of our ancestors are never dismissed. When the emancipation of slaves finally occurred in Texas in 1865, the majority of the freed slaves traveled long and far on San F...

Houston's Freedmen's Town is now home to a Farmers Market that brings fresh food to the area, and helps Black and Brown-owned businesses.