Jessie Degollado

As a once-rural area with a history that's gone largely undocumented, the stories of this South Side community are best told by the generations of people who came to call it home.

A father and son created a nonprofit that preserves and shares the histories of the indigenous people who not only built the Spanish Colonial Missions but also lived and died at what is now considered a UNESCO World Heritage site.

A permanent exhibit opening Saturday at the Sutherland Springs Historical Museum will honor the people who were enslaved at the Polley Plantation, known as Whitehall in Wilson County.

Its 1950s and 60s vibe permeates Shearer Hills; it's one of the first developments during San Antonio's post-war building boom. Back then, the area was considered to be outside the city limits. Yet it was created during a time of racial segregation by developer H.J. Shearer, who had a racial covenant in the deed restrictions, a common practice at the time.

La Matanza or massacre targeted Latinos a century ago Reign of racial terror in Texas involving Latinos not widely known, historians says

Little do many know living in the Northern Hills and Valencia neighborhoods, that part of Northeast San Antonio has a connection to the Mission San Antonio de Valero, best known as the Alamo, as well as the first peoples of San Antonio going back thousands of years.

– Landlocked by the H-E-B in Floresville and a neighborhood, the Walker-Edwards Cemetery is on land once owned by James Walker, an African American who had been enslaved as a child.

Policarpio ‘Polly' Rodriguez went from rugged frontiersman to preacher

Nacimiento founded by free Black Seminoles fleeing slave catchers