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  • The Back Stories of History featuring Freedmen’s Town
    Priscilla T Graham
    Historic Freedmen’s Town, Fourth Ward is a living laboratory of African American History and Life. The Historic 5 square mile District was founded after the Civil War on June 19, 1865. The Freedmen migrated to Houston from the small farms and plantations south and southwest of Houston along the Brazos River by way of San Felipe Road. Many Freedmen settled on the uninhabitabl...
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    64,26 €

  • African American Women World War II
    Priscilla T Graham
    Over 50 countries fought on the battlegrounds of Asia, Europe, North Africa, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and the Mediterranean Sea in one of the world’s most deadly and costliest wars in world history, World War II. The United States entered the war in 1941 after Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941. Research estimates that during World War II o...
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    37,43 €

  • Freedmen’s Town Then & Now
    Charonda Johnson / Priscilla T Graham
    Freedmen’s Town Immediately west of downtown Houston lies the city’s oldest Indigenous African American community affectionally known as Historic Freedmen’s Town located in Fourth Ward. Wards were established in 1841. Although the ward system was officially discontinued in 1906, Houstonians continued to identify the city’s various communities by those political subdivisions. ...
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    27,77 €

  • 555 Grace
    Priscilla T Graham
    555 Grace the YMCA Black Genii is collection of stories about the men and women who established the Colored YMCA and help build Houston. Their contributions and lives are acknowledged and celebrated so we will always remember... ...
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    29,79 €

  • Colored YMCA
    Priscilla T Graham
    In 1905, L.H. Spivey, T.M. Fairchild, E.O. Smith, and several Negro leaders meet with William A. Hunton the National Colored Secretary to discuss establishing a Houston YMCA for Negros. These Houston leaders continued to meet on Sundays for many years; however, their initial quest to establish a Y failed until the National War Work Council established the Colored Soldiers and ...
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    29,55 €

  • Bagby Street YMCA
    Priscilla T Graham
    In 1931, William C. Craver became the Executive Secretary of the Colored YMCA. He was highly effective in implementing changes in structure and operations of the developing YMCA as it joined as a branch of Houston YMCA. Craver was also instrumental in the Y’s growth in programs and services by expanding the work of the Colored Branch YMCA of Houston. The Colored Branch YMCA of ...
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    29,73 €

  • The Six Triple Eight
    Priscilla T Graham
    The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was an all-black battalion of the Woman’s Army Corps (WAC). The 6888th had eight hundred and fifty-five enlisted African American women and officers. The battalion was commanded by Major Charity Edna Adams Early, who became the highest-ranking African-American woman in the military at the end of the war. It was the only all-black, a...
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    22,98 €

  • Historic Acres Homes the 44
    James Thibodeaux / Priscilla T Graham
    Acres Homes was established in 1910. Working class families, laborers, farmers, water front workers, carpenters, domestics, military, and factory workers filled with hope and self-pride began migrating and purchasing property platted for African Americans approximately 10 miles northwest of downtown Houston from developer Alfred A. Wright. The settlement acquired its name Acre...
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    46,89 €

  • Houston Freedmen’s Town
    Priscilla T Graham
    Houston Freedmen’s Town is a breif history of remaining buildings and structures in Houston’a Fourth Ward Historical Freedmen’s Town District. ...
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    13,46 €

  • Vietnam Larry Graham
    Priscilla T Graham
    Vietnam Larry Graham is Larry Graham's scrapbook that he made and kept during his military training and tour in Vietnam in 1969. These never before seen photos have been stored behind his parents' bookshelf since his death. Some of the photos were water damaged; however, the soldiers' names are listed as he had them in his scrapbook. This book is from the actual soldiers pe...
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    12,90 €

  • Buffalo Soldiers
    Priscilla T Graham
    Buffalo Soldiers is a visual presentation of Buffalo Soldiers throughout American history including photos of Confederate and Union Soldiers. The book also offers a glimpse of the Buffalo Soldiers’ 150th Anniversary held in Houston, Texas on July 30, 2016. ...
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    27,41 €

  • Camp Logan
    Priscilla T Graham
    The Houston Mutiny and Riot of 1917, marks one of Houston’s darkest hours in race relations. On August 23,1917, Acting First Sergeant Vida Henry led 156 armed soldiers toward Houston’s Police Department by way of Brunner Avenue continuing along San Felipe Street. The book Camp Logan takes an in depth look at the cause and events that occurred in Houston, Texas on August 23, 191...
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    23,80 €

  • Buffalo Soldiers
    Priscilla T Graham
    Buffalo Soldiers is a visual presentation of Buffalo Soldiers throughout American history including photos of Confederate and Union Soldiers. The book also offers a glimpse of the Buffalo Soldiers’ 150th Anniversary held in Houston, Texas on July 30, 2016. ...
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    48,74 €

  • Camp Logan
    Priscilla T Graham
    The Houston Mutiny and Riot of 1917, marks one of Houston’s darkest hours in race relations. On August 23,1917, Acting First Sergeant Vida Henry led 156 armed soldiers toward Houston’s Police Department by way of Brunner Avenue continuing along San Felipe Street. The book Camp Logan takes an in depth look at the cause and events that occurred in Houston, Texas on August 23,...
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    47,48 €

  • Texas Historical African American Markers
    Priscilla T Graham
    Texas Historical Markers documenting key African American buildings, businesses, cemeteries, churches, communities, schools, social organizations throughout Harris County. ...
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    42,29 €

  • McNair and Hufsmith
    Priscilla T Graham
    McNair and Hufsmith is a 44-page full color pictorial history book of African American Settlements that were once located in Baytown and Tomball, Texas. Today only small traces of the once self-sustaining African American Settlements exist. ...
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    28,16 €

  • Oak Hill Kendleton
    Priscilla T Graham
    Oak Hill Kendleton is a 8.5 X 8.5 pictorial history book of Texas African American Settlements in Fort Bend County 150 years after slavery. This book includes a brief history and pictures of Kendleton and Powell Point. ...
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    28,36 €

  • Legacy, Embracing Our Past to Protect the Future
    Priscilla T Graham
    Houston League of Business and Professional Women, Inc. 52nd Founders’ Day salute to the organization’s Legacy and community leaders. ...
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    28,85 €

  • Texas 100 Year Old African American Churches II
    Priscilla T Graham
    100 Year Old African American Churches II is an 8.5 X 8.5 full color 60 page paperback pictorial history book of Texas 100 Year Old African American Churches in Third Ward, Six Ward, Acres Homes, Green Pond, Greens Point, Kendleton, Boiling, Prairie View, Sugarland, Arcola, Angleton, Brazoria, Harrisburg, Washington Avenue Coalition/Memorial Park, Bryan, Riceville, and Houston....
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    45,62 €

  • Houston Acreage Home
    Priscilla T Graham
    Houston Acreage Home is an 8.5 X 8.5-44 page full color paperback pictorial history book of Houston’s Historic Acreage Home, Texas. ...
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    34,24 €

  • Highland Tank Our Settlement
    Priscilla T Graham
    Highland Tank Our Settlement is a 6 X 9 black and white hardback pictorial history of the remaining structures in the original 1867 Settlement in Texas City, Texas 150 years after the Civil War and slavery. Each structure, place, or building is listed by its original name.Publisher: 3 ...
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    27,52 €

  • Independence Heights
    Priscilla T Graham
    Houston Independence Heights is an 8.5 x 8.5-48 page full color paperback pictorial history book of Houston’s Independence Heights, Texas. The city was incorporated on January 25, 1915 and became the first Incorporated African American City in Texas. ...
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    28,36 €

  • Texas 100 Year Old African American Churches
    Priscilla T Graham
    Texas 100 Year Old African American Churches is a 8.5 X 8.5-60 page full color pictorial history of Texas African American Churches that are over 100 years old. The book includes churches in the following Texas cities Galveston, Dickinson, Texas City, Brookshire, Freedmen’s Town, Houston Heights, Fifth Ward, Independence Heights, Bordersville, Barrett Station, Needville, Piney...
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    45,62 €

  • Historic Fifth Ward
    Priscilla T Graham
    Historic Fifth Ward 8.5 x 8.5-78 page full color paperback pictorial history of Houston’s Fifth Ward. ...
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    44,76 €

  • Houston African American Settlements
    Priscilla T Graham
    8.5 x 8.5-58 page full color paperback pictorial history of some of the remaining structures in historical Texas settlements founded by African Americans after the Civil War including Lily White, Riceville, Piney Point, Kohrville, Barrett Station, Bordersville, and Independence Grove. ...
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    39,64 €

  • Highland Tank Our Settlement
    Priscilla T Graham
    Highland Tank Our Settlement is a 8.5 X 8.5 full color paperback pictorial history of the remaining structures in the original 1867 Settlement in Texas City, Texas 150 years after the Civil War and slavery. Each structure, place, or building is listed by its original name. ...
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    44,76 €

  • 150 Years, Standing Strong
    Priscilla T Graham
    150 Years, Standing Strong is a collection of church histories, places, and people that illustrate their origin and connection with Historic Freedmen’s Town in Houston’s Fourth Ward. ...
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    24,18 €

  • Houston Freedmen’s Town
    Priscilla T Graham
    Houston Freedmen’s Town is a pictorial history of buildings and structures in Fourth Ward’s Historical Freedmen’s Town District. ...
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    27,31 €

  • Freedmen’s Town Preservation Coalition
    Priscilla T Graham
    Freedmen’s Town Preservation Coalition collection of actions and activivies in the fight to 'Save Century Old Brick Streets' in Historic Fouth Ward Freedmen’s Town, Houston, Texas. ...
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    20,97 €

  • Freedmen’s Town, The People Are The City
    Priscilla T Graham
    Freedmen’s Town Preservation Coalition preserving the cultural resources in Freedmen’s Town as an International destination for heritage, cultural, research, education, and tourism. ...
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    54,18 €