All the Roberts, Part III

By |2018-01-21T18:31:38+00:00January 19th, 2018|Black History, Civil War, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, East Texas, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Men, Politics, Restoration, Slavery, Uncategorized|

Our story of Shack Roberts, freed slave/politician/minister/blacksmith/founder of Wiley College continues. Running as a Republican (which was the liberal party at the time), [...]

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All the Roberts, Part II

By |2018-01-21T18:32:38+00:00January 17th, 2018|Black History, Civil War, Dallas History, Dallas People, East Texas, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Men, Politics, Restoration, Slavery|

My last post included Roberts, TX, a small town 17 miles from Greenville and a mysterious death that involved a man 'falling from [...]

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All the Roberts

By |2018-01-21T18:33:21+00:00January 15th, 2018|Black History, Civil War, Dallas History, Dallas People, East Texas, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Men, Politics, Restoration, Slavery|

Mysterious Death GREENVILLE, TEX., May 22 [1893] – News reached here to-night of the mysterious death of Tom Wallace, in the vicinity of [...]

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