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Telling the Story of a Texas Freedom Colony Through Decades of Photos

Jan 29, 2019 — By Cat Cardenas

”The Upshaws of County Line,” a new book and exhibit currently at Museum of the Big Bend, chronicles a safe haven established by African American Texans.

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