History Taskforce

Members of the History Taskforce met with students at Lone Star College - Kingwood on April 28th during a history-themed cultural exhibition. We helped students start their family trees and provided links via QR code to free resources. We explained some of our successful projects which can be found at Historytaskforce.org.

Wednesday morning, state, county and city officials and citizens honored J. GOLDSTEIN DuPREE, who served as one of twelve Black state legislators in the 12th Texas Legislature during the post-Civil War Reconstruction period in the early 1870s. It is believed that he is buried in an unmarked grave in the historic African American Montgomery Memorial Cemetery.

The marker memorial ceremony was held at the Montgomery Memorial Cemetery which recently was recognized with a county historical marker. The ceremony was organized by our MCHC member T J WILKERSON who served as the Master of Ceremonies and organized the program. Also participating in the ceremony were State Representative WILL METALF, County Judge MARK KEOUGH, and Montgomery city mayor SARA COUNTRYMAN.