African-American History
Looking Forward to Juneteenth
On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger read General Order No. 3, which announced the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas, from a balcony in Galveston Texas, or so the story goes. It was two and a half years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect and 2 months after the Civil War had…
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“Stagecoach Mary” Fields Carries the Mail
Fifty years before the Six Triple Eight Central Postal Directory Battalion made postal history, a six-foot tall, powerfully built formerly enslaved woman named “Stagecoach Mary” Fields delivered the mail in rural Montana as a Star Route Carrier for the United States Post Office.* When Mary was emancipated, she left West Virginia, where she had been…
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Road Trip Through History: George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogical Center
The National Museum of the Pacific War was on our Austin must-see list for twelve years; we went to the George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Center because we had some time to fill. It turned out to be a happy accident. Because we went to the museum on a whim, we hadn’t spent any…
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