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Gregory School Library Analysis

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Gregory Institute was founded in 1870 after 5 years since African Americans bought the land to end slavery in Texas. The African American library at the Gregory School is a library that preserves most of the historical information about the African-American people especially the Freedmen’s Town’s people that lived in the Houston area after the Civil War ended in 1865. The library contains three galleries and each of them is about Education, Religion, and the Freedmen’s Town which was the center of African American community in Houston during the post Civil War era. The library also has a restored classroom from 1929, a list of honorable African American people who dedicated their lives for the city of Houston, and many twentieth century antiques …show more content…

The first ever church for African Americans was Trinity United Methodist Church. The Trinity United Methodist Church was found in 1866 as a missionary church. After the emancipation, many churches were established and they played a “vital” role that let thousands of African Americans to rely their lives on. They helped African Americans to know about God along with teaching them about music, prayers, survival lessons, skills that are needed in daily life, and the most important thing: hope. If someone wanted to understand about finances, jobs, and land purchases, the churches would counsel and give them many advices. They also provided burials and service for thousands of sick and poor African American people in the Houston area. Churches were the first and most important schools of the Fourth Ward people. There were total 23 churches in this area. Most of them are still existed until today and the oldest one among of them is Antioch Missionary Baptist church which was founded in 1866 by Rev. Jack

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