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The Lenora Rolla Heritage Center Museum is a museum in Fort Worth, Texas that focuses on the history of African Americans in Tarrant County and throughout Texas. [1] It is named for Lenora Rolla who initially raised money to purchase the building and start the museum in 1979. [ 2 ]
The National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum is on the corner of North Main Street and West 21st Street, just a few blocks from the Stockyards, the anchor of Fort Worth’s cowboy culture.
Butler Place Historic District is a 42-acre area east of the central business district of Fort Worth, Texas. From about 1940-2020, it was a public housing development with 412 units. The site is now to be dedicated to a new purpose, perhaps a museum focused on African Americans in Fort Worth's history. [2] [3]
The National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum was founded February 1, 2001, by Jim and Gloria Austin of Fort Worth, Texas. Their objective was to recognize the individual contributions of many groups from the Western Frontier. Included in these groups are people of Hispanic, Native American, European, Asian, and African descent.
The museum’s Confederate and Union military artifacts, valued at $3 million when the $1.5 million building opened in 2004, are now worth $20 million-$25 million and “may be the biggest private ...
The South Dallas Cultural Center places a heavy emphasis on supporting and displaying blacks in the performing, literary, and visual arts. In Fort Worth, The Lenora Roll Heritage Center Museum and National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum houses history highlighting African-American culture primarily in the North Texas region. [36]
A new free art space will open on the east side of Fort Worth to empower underrepresented artists and share their work with the community. The Tubman Gallery, in partnership with CommUnity ...
In 2005 the thesis that black Americans who trace their immigration to the slave era experience lower life expectancy due to hypertensive disease associated with the slave trade was revisited by the academic team of David Cutler, Roland G. Fryer Jr. and Nathan Glazer. [6]