San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association presents History Under the Star: The Yellow Rose of Texas – The Song, Emily West and the Great Texas Myth

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Photo courtesy of Texas Historical Commission

“There's a yellow rose in Texas that I am gonna see, Nobody else could miss her, not half as much as me.” The lyrics of “The Yellow Rose of Texas” are familiar to any Texan, but the true story behind the song is lost in myth and legend.

Visitors can learn how the “Yellow Rose of Texas” became the unofficial state anthem and how grit and determination brought a free Black woman from the abolitionist riots of Connecticut to the thick of a bloody Texas revolution.

“There's a yellow rose in Texas that I am gonna see, Nobody else could miss her, not half as much as me.” The lyrics of “The Yellow Rose of Texas” are familiar to any Texan, but the true story behind the song is lost in myth and legend.

Visitors can learn how the “Yellow Rose of Texas” became the unofficial state anthem and how grit and determination brought a free Black woman from the abolitionist riots of Connecticut to the thick of a bloody Texas revolution.

WHEN

WHERE

San Jacinto Museum
1 Monument Cir, La Porte, TX 77571, USA
https://apps.sanjacinto-museum.org/onlineregistration?EV=112

TICKET INFO

$3-$5; free for students.

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