Juneteenth Has a Home
More than three years after plans were announced to build a National Juneteenth Museum, Fort Worth officials have made way for the planned 50,000-square-foot museum, food hall, business incubator and theater.
The $70 million museum of Black history will be built on a plot on the city’s Historic Southside, with the city kicking in $15 million. Opal Lee, the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” gave City Council members two thumbs up.
“Wow, I tell you, I could have hugged everyone, but they’ve got work to do,” Lee told the Fort Worth Report.
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The Unelected Bush
This month marks the centennial of Barbara Bush’s birth.
Bush, the wife of President George H.W. Bush and mother of Texas governor and President George W. Bush, was born June 8, 1925.
Another son, Jeb, was Florida governor and ran for president, and grandson George P. served as Texas land commissioner.
Barbara was loyal to the politicos in her family and didn’t shy away from expressing her opinions. And sometimes she proved to be more popular than her kin. In 1992, some voters wore buttons that said, “Reelect Barbara’s Husband.”
She died in 2018 at her home in Houston.
John S. Chase with his sons in front of the family’s Houston residence, circa 1959.
African American Library at the Gregory School | Houston Public Library
Groundbreaking Architect
John S. Chase made history 75 years ago this month when he became the first African American student enrolled in a graduate program at a major university in the South—the University of Texas. That was June 7, 1950, and two years later he became the state’s first Black licensed architect.
