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The Colored Orphan Asylum was an institution in New York City, open from 1836 to 1946. It housed on average four hundred children annually and was mostly managed by women. [ 1 ] Its first location was on Fifth Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets in Midtown Manhattan , a four-story building with two wings.
Location of Tarrant County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Tarrant County, Texas.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Tarrant County, Texas.
In 1995, the city of Dallas elected its first black mayor Ron Kirk. He held office from 1995 to 2002. In 2019, Dallas elected its second black mayor, Eric Johnson. Dallas' Black Chamber of commerce was established in 1926 and is the oldest in the United States. [19] Fort Worth and some surrounding cities also have a black chamber of commerce.
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Texana A. Castle (née Childress; 1863-1930) was an African-American Baptist, who lived in Bryan, Texas for most of her life. She was affiliated with Baptist missionary projects and founded the Bryans Colored Rescue Home in the mostly African-American community of Boonville, Texas.
The Orphan Train Movement transported roughly 200,000 children from the northeast throughout the Midwest and as far west as Texas. Reverend IZT Morris (born Spalding Co, Georgia, March 21, 1847), a Methodist circuit minister, began locating homes for children who had reached the end of the line in Fort Worth.
RiverSpring Living was founded in 1917 as the Hebrew Home, a Jewish organization based in a synagogue focused on helping homeless older adults. [4] [5] [6] In 1951, it acquired a 19-acre Riverdale site, which was the former Riverdale Children's Association and before that the Colored Orphan Asylum. [1]
Tina Turner’s escape from her abusive marriage with Ike Turner started on the eve of America’s 200th birthday, in a Dallas hotel.