1 hour 30 minutes (approx.)
Daily Tour
6 people
English
If you’re looking to dive into the Black history of Galveston, but don’t want to plan your own explorations, book this Galveston Juneteenth and Beyond Small-Group Cultural Tour. A guide who knows the city well leads the way to historic and cultural sites as you take in stories and information they share with you. Plus, this tour can easily be fit into any busy day, with morning and afternoon tour times offered.
Start from the Old Central Cultural Center. Head to Middle Passage Marker at 21st and Haroborside. The symbol of the beginning of slavery in the new world
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
We will see the Absolute Equality Mural on the way to Nia Cultural Center, the only African American art gallery on The Strand. Also on the strand is the Juneteenth marker that marks where executive order #3 was read and all slaves in Texas were freed
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
Built in 1848, the first AME church in Texas. One of the locations where General Order #3 was read on June 19, 1865 which declared emancipation in Texas from slavery.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
See the statue of Al Edwards, the legislature who helped get Juneteenth a state holiday in 1979. Also see the And Still We Rise Exhibit
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
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