Tag: matthew gaines
More Than a Thousand Attend Unveiling of New Statue to Reconstruction Texas Senator
A new statue of Reconstruction legislator Matthew Gaines was unveiled at Texas A&M University on Saturday. Gaines had been enslaved at birth and was twenty…
Texas A&M Unveiling Statue of Black Reconstruction Sen. Matthew Gaines Whose Work Helped Found the School
Students at Texas A&M began the effort to create a memorial to State Senator Matthew Gaines all the way back in 1998. Gaines was enslaved…