Silvia Hector Webber helped enslaved people escape via Texas: meet this heroine. Webber operated in Texas, one of the states that sparked the US Civil War with its attempts to secede so it could remain a slaveholder.
The woman's descendants are working to make her story more widely known, like that of Harriet Tubman and other "railroad" activists. More Latino homeowners, Asian and black Americans who own their own home, according to Axios Latino's new survey.