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1. rediscovering-black-history.blogs.archives.govPreserving a Community’s Legacy: The History of The Gregory ...

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   Sep 1, 2021 · Black education was viewed as a significant threat to the status quo and their ideal vision of a white supremacist racial hierarchy. It is in this context that the Gregory School in Houston, TX was established. The Gregory School was a Freedmen’s school created at the order of Major General Edgar M. Gregory.

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   Feb 4, 2021 · The Gregory School was the first school for Black children in Houston. Now it is a library that houses the African American experience of the past and present.

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   Who founded the Gregory School?

   • The Gregory School was a Freedmen’s school created at the order of Major General Edgar M. Gregory. It became the first school for African Americans in the city of Houston. Founded in 1870, the Gregory Institute was established in a two-story frame building on Jefferson Avenue at Louisiana Street.

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   What is the Gregory School?

   • "The Gregory School sits in the heart of Houston's Fourth Ward, also known as Freedmen's Town. When slavery ended in 1865, about 1,000 freed slaves moved to this neighborhood. The school opened its doors in 1870 and provided an education to both children and adults," archivist Miguell Ceasar said.

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   Is the Gregory School a historical landmark?

   • The State Historical Commission designated the Gregory School building as a State Archaeological Landmark in 1995; the highest historical landmark classification that can be placed on a building. In 2008, ground-breaking work began to restore and transform the former school into The African American Library at the Gregory School.

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   What happened to Gregory Elementary School?

   • Gregory Elementary School merged with Lincoln Junior High School to become Gregory-Lincoln Education Center. The site was listed in the national register of historic places in 1985 and designated as a state antiquities landmark in 1995. Over the next 20 years, the building sat unoccupied and vacant falling into further disrepair.

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   Apr 26, 2024 · Built in 1926, the two-story, former elementary school named after Edgar M. Gregory, a Union officer and Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau for the Texas area, is in historic Freedmen’s Town, in Houston’s Fourth Ward. This area is the city’s oldest established African American community.

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   Jun 10, 2023 · Houston's first purpose-built school for blacks was the 1870 Gregory Institute, named for E.M. Gregory, a Freedmen's Bureau official. Black trustees Richard Allen, Rev. Elias Dibble, Peter Noble, Rev. Sandy Parker and William Waff raised money for the private school, located in a two-story brick building on Jefferson Avenue at Louisiana Street.

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   Jan 1, 1995 · Gregory Institute. The Gregory Institute, a high school for Black children in Houston, was named for the man who donated the land for it, Gen. Edgar M. Gregory, first assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas. The building was a plain four-room brick structure on Jefferson Avenue between Smith and Louisiana streets.

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8. www.khou.com › article › lifeHouston's African-American Library at Gregory School | khou.com

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   Feb 9, 2023 · HOUSTON — The Fourth Ward in Houston is sometimes called the "Mother Ward." In it, you'll find the African-American Library at the Gregory School . It's a building with a long history and...

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   Opened as a school for Houston’s African American youth, the Gregory school was built by the members of Freedmen’s Town and served the community for several years. The school was burned down and rebuilt, and now serves as a museum and archive to preserve the items of some of Houston’s most...