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📆 1905
📍 Bishop College (defunct as of 1988)
Here is a photo of the Bishop College class of 1905.
Rutherford B. H. Yates is in the upper-right
Side-note - major props to the sole woman in this photo.
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Bishop College Cooking Class [3/3]
John Henry "Jack" Yates is my #1 favorite all-time Houstonian.
He and his family began building and nurturing Houston's Black community almost immediately after emancipation.
Rev. Yates is long overdue for a statue in the center of the city, but unfortunately all I have is this short write-up I did a while back.
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John Henry “Jack” Yates was born into slavery on July 11, 1828 to Robert and Rachel Yates, who were enslaved on a plantation in Virginia. The children of his enslavers taught John Henry how to read and write, despite it […]
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