Maceo Crenshaw Jr. Dailey Kathryn Smith-McGlynn Cecilia Gutierrez Venable
El Paso's African American community can trace its origins back to the 16th century, when the black Moor known as Esteban roamed the southwest and, more significantly, those Africans in the party of conquistador Juan de Onate crossed the Rio Grande in 1598. The modern El Paso African American community began to take shape in the 1880s, as the railroad industry, military establishment, and agricultural community all had black Americans in their ranks. Black leaders and their followers established a school and founded several significant black churches. Texas's first state branch of the...
El Paso's African American community can trace its origins back to the 16th century, when the black Moor known as Esteban roamed the southwest and, mo...
