Freedmen’s Town Museums Houston
a part of Rutherford B.H. Yates Museum, Inc.
Archaeology, Education and Preservation
Workman's Cottage - 1404 Victor Street
Black barbershops and beauty shops in communities like Freedmen’s Town were pillars of community strength and organizational strongholds against racial discrimination.
This workman’s cottage built in the early 1920s, typifies small, commercial buildings constructed in working class Houston neighborhoods of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
It has several historic designations including recognition as a “Site of Memory Associated to the UNESCO Slave Route”.
It needs $30,000 to complete brick pathways, historic gardens, and security lighting. It is a Barber & Beauty Shop Museum.
UNESCO Sites of Memory Slave
Two of R.B.H.Y. Museum’s historic homes, the Workman’s Cottage (aka Barbershop) at 1404 Victor St. and the Rev. Ned Pullum and Emma Edding-Pullum landmark home at 1319 Andrews St., have been designated as Sites of Memory associated with UNESCO’s Slave Route project. Launched in 1994, the international and inter-regional project The Slave Route: Resistance, Liberty, Heritage addresses the history of the slave trade and slavery through the prism of intercultural dialogue, a culture of peace and reconciliation. It endeavors to improve the understanding and transmission of this human tragedy by making better known its deep-seated causes, its consequences for societies today, and the cultural interactions born of this history.
Freedmen’s Town Museums Houston
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