They Built a Church With the Man Who Once Enslaved Them

On this episode of Our American Stories, after the Civil War, a group of freedmen outside Dallas built a church with help from the man who had once enslaved them. That man also worshiped there. White Rock Chapel would go on to survive a flood, resist segregation, and outlast generations of change. But decades later, it faced a new threat: real estate development. Donald Wesson, along with his family, stepped in to protect what others had nearly forgotten. Joining him is historian Judith Segura of White Rock Chapel, who helps tell the story of one of Texas’s most remarkable and enduring houses of worship.

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