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The Tallest Black Monument in America Is in a Tiny Texas Town | Kendleton's $10M Miracle
What if we told you the tallest African American heritage monument in the entire United States is in a tiny town of 400 people an hour outside Houston?
This Wednesday feel-good story takes us to Kendleton, Texas — one of the first freedmen's towns in America, founded by six formerly enslaved families after emancipation. For 150 years, its history lived quietly in Bates Allen Park, home to historic Black cemeteries Newman Chapel and Oak Hill and the gravesite of Benjamin Franklin Williams, Texas' first Black legislator.
Until Fort Bend County voters changed everything.
In this episode, Mr…
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