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Topic: Park redesign honoring racial justice history in Downtown HoustonSource: Houston civic guide / Commissioner Rodney Ellis's officeHours: Open daily 6:00am – 7:00pmReading time: About 1 minuteNew name: Remembrance Park
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Good first step: Act Visit Quebedeaux/Remembrance Park in Downtown Houston
Plan a visit to the park and look for updates on the new art, water feature, and history exhibits honoring Harris County's racial justice history.
Quebedeaux Park is a free Downtown Houston park open daily. It is being reimagined as Remembrance Park, a space that will honor the history of social justice and human rights in Harris County — including four individuals who were lynched here between 1890 and 1928.
The Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis's office is transforming the park into Remembrance Park. The redesign will feature four markers recognizing individuals lynched in Harris County between 1890 and 1928. Those names are drawn from the Equal Justice Initiative's (EJI) report 'Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror,' a well-documented national investigation into racial violence. The new park will also include art installations, a water feature, a public education area, and permanent exhibits on local racial and social justice history. Admission is free.
You can visit the park now during open hours and learn about Dr. Quebedeaux's legacy. As the redesign takes shape, the space will grow into a fuller place of reflection and education. Bringing family — especially young people — to parks like this is one way to start honest conversations about Houston's history.
Daily, 6:00 am – 7:00 pm
Quebedeaux Park, Downtown Houston
This project connects to the Equal Justice Initiative's national effort to document and memorialize victims of racial terror. It also reflects Harris County's broader investment in parks as places of community meaning — not just green space. If you care about local history, environmental justice, or public art, this park brings those threads together in one Downtown block.
This park carries two meaningful stories at once. It remembers Dr. Walter A. Quebedeaux (1915–1976), who spent 22 years fighting air and water pollution in Harris County. And soon it will also hold space for a harder part of our history — honoring victims of racial terror and the ongoing fight for human rights. That kind of honest remembrance matters for any community serious about moving forward.
