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Let’s start by thinking about a little bit about #Juneteenth and Houston! #CiteBlackWomen
Emancipation Park in Houston was purchased by Freedmen in 1872. It has hosted #Juneteenth celebrations like the one these lovely ladies participated in ever since. #CiteBlackWomen
The women in the photograph are Martha and Pinkie Yates. Their buggy, decorated with fresh flowers, is #Juneteenth parade ready!
Martha and Pinkie Yates were the daughters of Jack Yates. #GeorgeFloyd graduated from @JackYatesHigh. #CiteBlackWomen
Jack Yates was a Baptist minister in Houston. He pastored at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church and Bethel Baptist Church. Rev. Yates is on the far left in this picture. #CiteBlackWomen #JUNETEENTH
This photo is from an early #Juneteenth celebration in #EmancipationPark in Houston! #CiteBlackWomen
The #Junteenth photos in this thread are courtesy of The African American Library at the Gregory School, @houstonlibrary. Be sure to check out their exhibits when in Houston. houstonlibrary.org/research/speci…
#Juneteenth celebrations were planned months in advance. Committees on committees. Entertainment. Food. Speakers. Decorations. Parade. Church services. Music. Children's presentation. Did I mention Food!? It's a Black Family Reunion! #CiteBlackWomen
Houston's @TrinityUMCHTexas and Antioch Missionary Baptist Church purchased Emancipation Park in 1872 so that black Houstonians had a place to gather outdoors. Segregation laws banned them from city parks, so they made their own! #Juneteenth #CiteBlackWomen
In case you want to follow them, that's @TrinityUMCHTX!
Now that I've got Houston on your mind. Be sure to check out historian @TyinaSteptoe's award winning book book: Houston Bound: Color and Culture in a Jim Crow City, links to buy it are on her website, tyinasteptoe.com. #CiteBlackWomen #Juneteenth
Stay tuned for my next thread on #CiteBlackWomen beginning at 2PM ET. #Juneteenth began in Texas, but when Black Texans began moving to Oklahoma in the early 1900s, they brought it with them.

If you are marching today, mask up and stay hydrated. #BLM ❤️🖤💚
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Hey y'all, @melissanstuckey is back for another session!
#Juneteenth originated in Texas! But Emancipation meant Black people had the freedom to move and they did. In the 1890s and 1900s Black Texans moved to Oklahoma and brought Juneteenth with them.
Take a look at a piece near and dear to my heart. It's called "The Boley Rodeo: A Juneteenth Like No Other" I wrote it for @newterritorymag. Find it here: newterritorymag.com/in-this-place/
Read it and let's talk about it! T/Y @DrMChatelain for connecting me to @Gasconader! #CiteBlackWomen
@DrMChatelain is a brilliant black historian and author of two books!
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Add these to your summer reading list. marciachatelain.com
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We had a great conversation @UNCWomensCtr about the politics of citation a black women’s knowledge production. One of the things that came up was this issue of action. How do we begin to systematically change the culture of citation that erases Black women? #citeblackwomen
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