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Fort Bend County needs volunteers to help restore cemetery of former slaves over Juneteenth weekend

Fort Bend County leaders will be hosting a massive cleanup of a cemetery of formerly enslaved people, including the first Black Texas lawmaker, in honor of Juneteenth this weekend.

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June 12, 2023 12:00 AM
Fort Bend County needs volunteers to help restore cemetery of former slaves over Juneteenth weekend

Houston Chronicle

Claire Goodman | Staff writer

Fort Bend County leaders will be hosting a massive cleanup of a cemetery of formerly enslaved people, including the first Black Texas lawmaker, in honor of Juneteenth this weekend.

Organizers are asking volunteers to join them this Saturday, June 17, at 8:30 a.m. to clean the graves in Bates Allen Park in Kendleton. The graves are the final resting place of some of the first residents of Kendleton, one of the first freedmen’s towns in Texas.

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