@culturetravelsmedia: 4 Black history sites in downtown San Antonio. Under 60 minutes. About 2,000 steps. Walk it with me. 🚶🏾‍♂️ 📍 1. St. James AME Church - 302 W Houston St Formerly enslaved Black people built this church in 1867, just two years after emancipation. The installation was funded by the @sariverfoundation and the @sanantonioriver . Walk 10 minutes east… 📍 2. The Gunter Hotel/Robert Johnson - 311 N St. Mary’s St @thegunterhotel In November 1936, blues legend Robert Johnson recorded his first-ever session in Room 414. Those recordings helped build the legend of the King of the Delta Blues and shaped generations of blues and rock music. His legend still reaches pop culture today: the character Sammy in Sinners is partly based on Robert Johnson. Now cross the street… 📍 3. The Majestic Theatre @themajesticempirefdn - 222 E Houston St #640, San Antonio, TX 78205 A Green Book location. In the 1960s it was one of the few theaters that admitted Black guests, but only through a rear entrance and into the upper balcony, the worst view in the house. The balcony and the Black-only ticket box are still there today. Walk 5 minutes east… 📍 4. San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum (SAAACAM) @saaacamtx Next year it will be the third-largest African American museum in the country. They also organize Green Book bus tours, so you can go deeper into the history after this walk. Keep going east for 5 minutes… ☕📚 Finish at Pandora’s coffee bar and bookstore @pandoras_bookstore . Grab a coffee, pick up a book, and sit with everything you just walked through. Save this for your next trip downtown. Tell me which stop you’re visiting first. 👇🏾 #SanAntonio #BlackHistory #BlackTravel #SATXwalkingtour

beanie.weenie.hut.jr :

St. Philip’s is also one of the nation’s oldest HBCU’s!!

blav records :

Wdym we’re getting a whole new African-American museum? AND it’s gonna be in San Antonio??Omg💖💖

sslytherdor :

Thank you for sharing this information!! So many in San Antonio didn’t know these facts, including myself!!

estersaves :

@estersaves: Crazy story.. both my parents as teens went to watch James brown at the Majestic in the 60s (they didn’t know each other yet). My mom is fair skinned Latina and my dad dark skinned Latino. They had 2 very different experiences. My mom got to enter the front and sit in the bottom section and my dad had to go through the back and sit in the balcony. My dad says he still had a great time bc things had always been that way and he didn’t know any other way. My mom was surprised bc her accent always gave her ethnicity away but she stayed quiet and got to sit with her boyfriend in the whites only section (both Mexican). It blows my mind that they experienced that just a generation ago.

vanessa :

Looking forward to the museum!

Marie Adams :

I love this and I’ve been meaning to stop by Pandora’s for a hot minute. Side note the ending is hilarious 😂.

Lauren Xochitl :

Looove Pandora’s bookstore! They have homemade soaps, candles, and clothing and so many things!! My fav!

Marva Stephens :

Awesome

Keyonna💕 San Antonio Creator :

I use to live downtown & I passed by these places everyday and had no idea ! Thank you for this

JGO2 :

Wow!!! Love to learn more about my hometown. Definitely going to visit these sites. My dad, Mexican, also told me he had to go through the back to the majestic to watch movies. 😊

Sue De Lopez :

Amazing

rjbehan :

Thank you 🥰🥰🥰

Cindy RG :

Thank you for this information!!!💖

Dirty Diana :

Thank you! I never knew of this. I can’t wait to check it out, especially the museum.

Char :

History

nicole.5.eva :

Thank you for this!

jperrinhicks :

Thanks for sharing

crab legs :

tresahawkins4 :

Amazing

ri.says :

The museum being in an old Kress building, amazing. Thank you for sharing!

Rich Thames💎| SATX AI Creator :

This is so dope! Thanks for educating us, bro!!!✊🏾🫶🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥

Ylda Capriccioso :

love this more to discover

Fairy Glitter Princess 👸🏻 :

Thank you for sharing! Had no idea but plan to make this walk.

nicole :

i always pass pandora’s omw to work woah

Jeanette Davis :

Thanks for the information