Clarksville Archives - People's History in Texas https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/uncategorized/clarksville/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 02:17:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-logo-32x32.png Clarksville Archives - People's History in Texas https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/uncategorized/clarksville/ 32 32 Haskell House and the Clarksville Tour https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/haskell-house-and-the-clarksville-tour/ Tue, 14 Mar 2023 21:34:44 +0000 https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/?p=1786 The story of Clarksville, a Freedom Colony. by Richard Croxdale On MLK day, PHIT was blessed with a tour of the Haskell House, an historic house in the National Historic District of Clarksville. Clarksville was one of the first freedom colonies that sprang up across the south as previously enslaved people created their own communities. It was presented by Kathy […]

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]]> Publishing Plans https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/publishing-plans/ Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:20:46 +0000 https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/?p=545 New Journalism Project is collaborating with People’s History in Texas (PHIT) to re-publish two books.  As a new generation of activists take on gentrification and find inspiration in the history of women who organized before they were born, these books will find new audiences. Clarksville: Whose Community? by Jennifer Sharpe was first published in 1982 and chronicles an important fight against gentrification […]

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