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2022-2023 Common Read - How the Word is Passed: Galveston Island

Galveston Island

Ashton Villa

Photograph by Jill Evans, Image courtesy of Wikimedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Villa#/media/File:Ashton_Villa.jpg

Old Central Cultural Center, Galveston

Image courtesy of Old Central Cultural Center, https://www.galvestonoldcentral.com/images/header.jpg

Emancipation Park, Houston

Image courtesy of Defender Network, https://www.lincolncottage.org/juneteenth-the-emancipation-of-enslaved-texans/

Aerial View of Emancipation Park, Houston

Image courtesy of the New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/us/houston-juneteenth-emancipation-park.html

Al Edwards Statue

Photograph by William C. Teller, image courtesy of Wikimedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Villa#/media/File:Al_Edwards_Statue.jpg

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