Bus Tours & Other Services

 Our 2024 Historic African American Bus and Walking Tours offer a number of opportunities to  witness significant sites from the 19th and 20th centuries. The goal of our tours is to empower participants to learn more about Dallas’s African American heritage. Tour lengths extend from 2 to 5 hours. Our 2 hour mini bus tours highlight fewer sites, but are more comprehensive in nature and cost $30 per person. Our 4 hour tours give an in depth view of various Freedman's Town sites and cost $40. Check out our exciting itineraries below!

*Dates TBD.

*Pricing is subject to change.

Tour #1 will include stops at Freedman’s Cemetery, Booker T. Washington High School, Moorland Branch YMCA, and the sites of Black-owned businesses in the State-Thomas neighborhood, plus additional sites.

Tour #2 will include stops at the Pittman Hotel/Knights of Pythias Temple, Bluitt Sanitarium, and sites related to legendary American jazz and blues icons, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Robert Johnson, plus additional sites .

 Tour #3 will include stops at the  Lynching of Allen Brooks Equal Justice Initiative Historical Marker at Main and Akard Streets, the 1910 Lynching of Allen Brooks Texas Historical Marker at the Old Red Courthouse, and Martyrs Park, future site of the Shadow Lines Monument, Jane Elkins and 1860 Lynching Historical Markers plus additional sites 

Tour #4 will include stops in Tenth Street, one of Dallas's most endangered Freedman's Towns, information about William Brown Miller’s plantation mansion, Millermore, and those Miller enslaved in Oak Cliff, including Arch and Charlotte Miller, plus additional sites.   

Tour #5 will include stops at the Juanita J. Craft Civil Rights House, Wheatley Place and Queen City Historic Districts, and the African American Museum, plus additional sites.

Tour #6 will include  stops at White Rock Cemetery Garden of Memories, White Rock Chapel, Anderson Bonner Historical Marker and public art monument, Alpha, and Little Egypt, plus additional sites.