Galveston's African-American Heritage Tourism Sites – The Galveston Historical Foundation Tour

Galveston is where Juneteenth began — where, on June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger announced to enslaved Texans that they were free. The Galveston Historical Foundation's African American Heritage tour moves through that history on the ground: early schools built under segregation, churches that anchored post-emancipation community life, and the Midtown neighborhoods where that community took root. Self-guided and documented, it's the kind of walk that asks you to pay attention to what was built here, against considerable odds, and what endured.