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Notable Locations

Historically significant communities, landmarks, neighborhoods, and cultural sites, such as Greenwood in Tulsa and Galveston.


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Historic Communities

  • 1865–1930

    Place

    Freedom colonies in Texas

    The Texas Freedom Colonies Project lists 557 historic Black settlements founded in Texas between 1865 and 1930 by formerly enslaved people and other African Americans, and about 377 of them are verified so far. Residents sought to avoid debt bondage, sharecropping and racial violence by living mostly self-reliant lives on land they owned.

  • 1887

    Place

    Mound Bayou, Mississippi

    Twelve pioneers from Davis Bend, led by Isaiah Montgomery, founded Mound Bayou in the Yazoo Delta in spring 1887. Its institutions included a post office, six churches, banks, stores and schools, and it had about 8,000 residents by 1911. It remains a predominantly Black town today.

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