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Location: 1020 E. Humbolt St. Fort Worth, TX 76104. Open Monday - Friday: 10:00a.m. - 3:00p.m.
22 lis 2022 · I was curious – do you know if Black establishments existed out on Jacksboro highway, or were they confined to the Black part of Fort Worth? Do you know if there were any notable Black gambling halls?
1 sie 2012 · A number of African Americans left Fort Worth for east Texas, where blacks were more numerous and jobs, more plentiful. Those who stayed continued working in menial jobs as “servants” (room and board but not wages) or tenant farmers.
The nickname “Stop Six” stuck. The 300-unit J.A. Cavile Apartments opened at Rosedale and Etta streets in December 1953 following community concern over inadequate housing available throughout the city, but especially in neighborhoods populated by African-American families.
African American Cemetery sits on top of a hill overlooking Lake Arlington to the South and Handley to the North. The Cemetery is cared for by The Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church 1901 Aminda Ave Fort Worth. East Lancaster, Spur 303 and the Railroad run parallel to the Cemetery.
20 maj 2010 · (A historical marker located in Fort Worth in Tarrant County, Texas.) The first African-American residents of Fort Worth were slaves who received the delayed news of their emancipation on June 19, 1865.
One of her greatest accomplishments was fighting against the Texas Department of Transportation and City of Dallas’s decision to expand the Central Expressway, destroying the Freedman’s Cemetery, site of more than 8,000 of Dallas’ earliest Black residents (many former slaves).
