Civil Rights in East Texas

06/19/2026

06/19/2026

73 years ago, my parents were married. On their wedding night, no hotel would give them a room because of Jim Crow. They spent the night at a Black-owned funeral home instead — one of the few options available. But from that very first night, they chose to build a different world.

06/18/2026

Congratulations to President Barack Obama
and Michelle Obama on the opening of the Obama Presidential Center. President Obama has always understood that progress is built from the ground up, in neighborhoods and communities. This center, rooted on Chicago’s South Side, reflects that.

06/18/2026

THIS SATURDAY JUNE 20, 2026
9 am until
Stop by Community Outreach Mission on MLK to purchase one of the BEST turkey legs in East Texas!
Only from Jimisons BBQ …
$20.00 includes drink

06/18/2026

On June 18, 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Indian Reorganization Act — nicknamed the "Indian New Deal" — marking a major shift in federal policy toward Native Americans.

The bill was championed by Bureau of Indian Affairs Commissioner John Collier and Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes to facilitate self-government and economic self-sufficiency of the nation's indigenous peoples, in contrast with the previous policies of allotment and assimilation.

📸: Secretary Ickes handing first constitution issued under the Indian Reorganization Act to delegates of the Confederated Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation, October, 1935. (Library of Congress)

06/18/2026

06/18/2026