Illustrated Lecture: Black History and Place in San Antonio

San Antonio has long been recognized as a place of convergence and expression of diverse cultures. Native landscape architect and architect, Everett L. Fly, FASLA, will deliver an illustrated presentation of the “Elmendorf Colored Enclave” and the “Hockley Colored Enclave.” Each has a legacy of more than one hundred and ten years that contributed to the evolution of San Antonio’s cultural signatures, including the cattle industry, materials manufacturing, education, religion and military service. The sites and material traces are imminently threatened by desecration and neglect. Though located more than twenty miles apart, on opposite sides of the city, they share a common family heritage and represent a city wide phenomenon of integrated multicultural settlement.