The Society of Justice & Equality for the People of Sugar Land (S.O.J.E.S.), a Sugar Land non-profit organization established to raise the narrative on convict leasing and Sugar Land’s past, will hold A Day of Remembrance – A Black History Month Tribute to the Sugar Land 95, 11 a.m., Saturday, February 19, to mark to the day the fourth anniversary of the discovery of the “Sugar Land 95,” the human remains of at least 95 victims of […]
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Sugar Land 95 to be honored at news conference June 19
The remains of the 95 victims still lie in unadorned graves in a grassy Sugar Land field, marked only by flat, black rectangular stones engraved with numbers. But the tragic tale of the monumental discovery of the “Sugar Land 95” is far from over. June 19, a day commonly known in the South as “Juneteenth,” is when Texas slaves learned they were officially freed two years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. […]