HOUSTON — Historic bricks that were improperly removed from Wilson Street in Freedmen’s Town are expected to return soon.
On Wednesday, the Houston City Council approved an agreement to bring the bricks back to the area where formerly enslaved people originally laid them in the 1870s.
“These are priceless antiquities, and we cannot replace them,” said Charonda Johnson, a community leader often referred to as the mayor of Freedmen’s Town. Johnson said about 120 bricks were removed in February…