On My Block ATX

On My Block ATX > All Episodes

March 23, 2017

12th & Chicon: Preserving the Community’s History

By: Jennifer Stayton

On the East Side, development and rising property costs continue to force the African-American community out. With such rapid migration, how have the neighborhood’s history and culture and the city’s African-American population been preserved? LaToya Devezin, the community archivist at the Austin History Center, spoke to KUT’s Jennifer Stayton about the work of local archivists to preserve the community’s history.