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15 TSCHS J. [i] (2025-2026)

handle is hein.journals/tschsj15 and id is 1 raw text is: Columns Leads Features Message from the President By Jasmine S. Wynton This Fall issue illuminates important chapters of Black legal history in Texas and honors individuals whose courage and commitment shaped our state. Read more... Executive Director's Column By Sharon Sandle Our understanding of history often depends on what we choose to commemorate. Read more... Fellows Column By Warren W. Harris The Fellows Program is celebrating its fourteenth anniversary during the Society's 2025-26 fiscal year. Read more... War Creation of the Texas Black Reconstruction Legislator Historical Marker Program By Vince Leibowitz with Senator Royce West For years, people Jasmine S. trekking through an old Wynton cemetery in a Fort Bend County Park might have come across a broken- down tombstone marking the grave of Benjamin Franklin Williams. Read more... Sharon Sandle Allen W. Wilder: Early Black Lawyer and Pioneer Black Legislator Benjamin Franklin Williams Promises Unfulfilled: The Freedman's Bureau Courts in Texas By Hon.John G. Browning President Abraham Lincoln's January 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation purported to free all slaves, but freedom did not come to enslaved persons Artist's impression of. in Texas until June 19, Bureau court i 1865. Read more... virginia By Hon.John G. Browning Allen W. Wilder, or A.W. Wilder is sometimes incorrectly credited with being the first African American attorney in Texas. Read more... Remembering Texas' First Black Legislators By Hon.John G. Browning Fifty-two Black men served Texas either in the Legislature or as delegates to the Constitutional Convention during Reconstruction and shortly thereafter. Read more... Allen W. Wilder A monument to Black legislators in the Texas State Cemetery