is a historic all-Black town founded in 1887 by formerly enslaved Black people who created a thriving haven for thousands of ...
During Galveston's Jim Crow era, Black islanders who fancied a dip in the Gulf of Mexico were limited to a narrow strip of beach between 27th and 28th streets or an area west of town known as Sunset ...
From shipwrecks to the segregated sands of the Jim Crow era, the timeline of this museum encompasses nearly 400 years of local history.