We ve got a lot of stories to tell : East Waco community preserves city s history through art, pictures
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WACO, TX â East Waco is a part of town established in the early 1900 s during the age of segregation. Downtown by Heritage Square, that was the Black part of Waco. Then it came over across the river, said East Waco historian GiGi Green Bowie
According to Bowie, Blacks, Asians and Hispanics were forced east of the Brazos River. Together the different races established roots based on faith, family and inclusion. These people have strong ties that I have never witnessed in all my years, and nothing can separate them from the love of East Waco, said East Waco historian Jeannette Bell.