This Is Us - Gregg County

04/09/2024

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01/14/2024

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Last night, our very own Nona Snoddy recieved the 2024 MLK Humanitarian Award at Parkview Baptist Church. We can’t think of anyone more deserving than her.

Congratulations Nona!

Ladies and Gentlemen, Nona Snoddy, the recipient of the 2024 MLK Humanitarian Award ❤️🙏🏽

Congratulations Aunt Nona!

10/16/2023

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08/02/2023

“In the days and months leading up to the special election to vote on the literacy test proposal, campaign events throughout the state encouraged white citizens to cast their votes in favor of the policy that would achieve Black disenfranchisement. On the eve of the election, judicial candidate and former Confederate officer William A. Guthrie proclaimed to a crowd of over 12,000:

“The people of the east and west are coming together. The amendment will pass and the negro curbed in every part of the state. Good government will be restored everywhere. Then our ladies can walk the streets of our towns in safety, day or night. White women will not be afraid to go about alone in the country. We will teach the colored race that our people must be respected. We have restrained and conquered other races. They obeyed our demands or were exterminated with the sword. We are at a crisis. Let us rise to the occasion. Come together!””

This is the mindset hailed as heroic by the monument that stands on our courthouse lawn. Please contact your county commissioner today and ask them to .

The time is now.

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

07/13/2023

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🤝We appreciate every financial contribution. All funds are used to educate folks about the monument and amplify our effort to see it removed.

07/04/2023

🇺🇸Today, as we observe America's independence from British colonialism, we would do well to consider the bittersweetness of this day for people of color who were not considered people at the time of our nation's founding.

Frederick Douglass invites us to reflect:

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Douglass used the occasion not to celebrate the nation’s … Read More...

06/30/2023

Jeffery Robinson, the ACLU’s top racial justice expert, discusses the dark history of Confederate symbols across the country and outlines what we can do to learn from our past and combat systemic racism.

Jeffery Robinson, the ACLU’s top racial justice expert, discusses the dark history of Confederate symbols across the country and outlines what we can do to l...

06/29/2023

"The city of Pulaski has long been known as the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan, but visitors heading into town will now see a life-sized, bronze monument honoring a very different history.

Ahead of the Juneteenth holiday, city leaders on Saturday unveiled “Resurrection of Valor,” a statue memorializing thousands of the region’s United States Colored Troops who fought for the U.S. Army in the Civil War.

For the small town of about 8,000 near the Alabama border, the monument marks a milestone as Pulaski works to change its image and remember its forgotten Black history."

Removing the monument from the Gregg County courthouse would not only be considered a milestone in the history of East Texas, but as a message to the world that what it symbolizes, does not represent Longview.

Pulaski leaders on Saturday unveiled “Resurrection of Valor,” a statue memorializing the region’s US Colored Troops who fought in the Civil War.

06/24/2023

This month and always, is proud of our LGBTQIA+ community!

06/19/2023

Happy Juneteenth from !