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This list of African American Historic Places in Texas is based on a book by the National Park Service, The Preservation Press, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers. [1]
John G. Riley Center/Museum of African American History and Culture: Tallahassee: Florida: 1996 [89] Josephine School Community Museum: Berryville: Virginia: 2003 [90] Kansas African-American Museum Wichita: Kansas: 1997 [91] L.E. Coleman African-American Museum Halifax County, Virginia: Virginia: 2005 [92] LaVilla Museum: Jacksonville: Florida ...
Texas has the largest African-American population in the country. [14] African Americans are concentrated in eastern, east-central and northern Texas, as well as the Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio metropolitan areas. [15] African Americans form 24 percent of both the cities of Dallas and Houston, 19% of Fort Worth, 8.1 percent of ...
Locations of American Indian tribes in Texas, ca. 1500 CE. Native American tribes in Texas are the Native American tribes who are currently based in Texas and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas who historically lived in Texas. Many individual Native Americans, whose tribes are headquartered in other states, reside in Texas.
Native peoples often disagreed about the role of ethnic African people in their communities. Some tribes or bands were more accepting of ethnic Africans than others, and welcomed them as full members of their respective cultures and communities. Other Native Americans saw uses for slavery, and did not oppose it for others.
Many places throughout the United States take their names from the languages of the indigenous Native American/American Indian tribes. The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions whose names are derived from these languages.
The facility, established by the Texas Legislature on May 27, 1965, [3] originally served as the Texas Pavilion at HemisFair '68 before being turned over to the University of Texas System in 1969. UTSA assumed administrative control of the museum in 1973. In 1986, the system designated the institute as a campus of the University of Texas at San ...
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 109.3/4 (2011): 327–350. online; Kleber, John E. Thomas D. Clark, Lowell H. Harrison and James C. Klotter, eds, The Kentucky Encyclopedia (1992) online; Lucas, Marion B. "African Americans on the Kentucky Frontier." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 95.2 (1997): 121–134. online