Some members of the panel want survivor of famed battle depicted differently when his statue appears in a visitor center lobby.
Officials of the Alamo Trust said they’ll ask a planning committee to review a controversial decision to depict an enslaved Black man holding a firearm during the 1836 siege as part of a series of bronze statues at a future visitor center.
Alamo project timelines — setbacks, hurdles, reviews Jarmon told the newspaper’s editorial board this week that she didn’t want her museum’s name “to be a part of something that is inaccurate” and have people asking 50 years later, “How did the African American museum let that slide?” Kate Rogers, the Alamo Trust executive director, said she and other leaders of a $550 million, public-private makeover project are taking the concerns seriously.
Amount revealed on state’s cost to purchase bar near Alamo Ernesto Rodriguez, the Alamo’s senior curator and historian, said the portrayal of Joe is “a very touchy subject” because he wasn’t at the Alamo “on his own free will.” During the battle, having heard about the red flag promising no quarter to the garrison that the besiegers flew from San Fernando Church, he was “a man fighting for his life.
Alamo Museum Planning Committee Express-News San Antonio African American Community Archive Management Committee Texas Revolution Joe Deborah Omowale Jarmon Kate Rogers Aaronetta Pierce Pierce Hope Andrade Rogers William B. Travis Ernesto Rodriguez African American Texans Black Museum San Antonio Texas Mexico San Fernando Church
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