After the Civil War, the South’s economy, society, and government were in shambles. Southern state governments struggled to raise money to repair damaged infrastructure and to support new expenses ...

Fort Bend ISD trustees unanimously voted Monday to partner with Friends of the Sugar Land 95 to obtain more funding and support for the Sugar Land 95 Memorial Project. In 2018, Fort Bend ISD ...

More than seven years after construction crews uncovered the unmarked graves of 95 people forced into Texas' convict-leasing system, the Fort Bend County Commissioners Court this week approved a ...

SUGAR LAND, Texas — The lives of 95 convict laborers forced to work on Fort Bend County plantations after the Civil War will be forever memorialized historical marker telling their story. Their ...

The Texas Historical Commission is honoring with a historical marker the 95 unmarked graves that Fort Bend ISD discovered in 2018 during the construction of a school. Archaeologists believe that the ...

More than 150 years ago, a prison complex known as the Lone Rock stockade operated at one of the biggest coal mines in Tennessee. It was powered largely by African American men who had been arrested ...

SUGAR LAND, Texas (KTRK) -- Over a year ago, the graves of 95 freed slaves were uncovered at a Fort Bend ISD construction site. Now, a state representative wants to see the Sugar Land 95 honored.

Franchisees of McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Burger King and Wendy’s face a class action lawsuit challenging an Alabama prison labor system as a form of coerced labor and convict leasing, ...

In the early 1900s, dramatic stories of the abuse and wretched conditions of convict laborers began to be publicized through trials and newspaper accounts. The egregiousness of the violence and ...

Fort Bend County leaders plan to celebrate a new historical marker for the “Sugar Land 95“ on Juneteenth, which is Thursday. The Texas Historical Commission awarded the marker to memorialize the 95 ...

"Portions of the text were previously published as 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Cuts Cordwood : Exploring Black Women's Lives and Labor in Georgia's Convict Camps, 1865-1917,' Labor : Studies in ...