Blackmon, Willie--Interviews ; African American students ; Houston Independent School District (Tex.) ; African America college athletes ; African American college students--Scholarships, fellowships, etc. ; Integration ; Texas A & M University ...
Judge Willie Blackmon discusses his life growing up in Houston including high school and college athletics, integration of Texas A&M University, serving in the United States Air Force and completing his Juris Doctorate at Texas Southern University.
Becker, Alan J. -- Interviews;
Life insurance agents--Interviews;
Houston (Tex.)--Growth and development;
Born in Houston, Texas, and graduating from the University of Texas in Marketing and Business, Alan Becker started his career in Life insurance. In this interview, he discusses the rapid growth and development of Houston in the 1950s, and the...
Jones, Edith Irby, 1927- ;
African American women physicians -- Texas -- Houston -- Interviews;
African American women physicians -- Texas -- Houston -- Biography;
Southern states -- Race relations -- Anecdotes;
African Americans -- Social...
Dr. Jones talks about growing up in Hot Spring, Arkansas as a poor and ambitious girl, the events that shaped her life, her years in medical school, her career as a physician in Houston, and her life as a civil rights activist.
Letter from Alma Albert, secretary to Governor Allred, to C. F. Richardson, Sr. regarding a copy of a letter of appreciation that the governor received from Thurgood Marshall, Assistant Special Counsel for the NAACP.
Letter from Alma Albert, secretary to Governor Allred, to C. F. Richardson regarding the Marchman letter which Richardson had shared. She also included copies of clippings of recent news per the governor's instruction to her. Letter from C. F....
Letter from L. A. Nixon to C. F. Richardson, Sr. regarding his previous letter to the Houston Defender, urging them to inform East Texans of the role that the NAACP played in two favorable Supreme Court decisions concerning the Texas Democratic...
Houston Defender masthead and part of story: "Negro Workers' Plight Pitiable" which mentions two workers' labor strike incidents in the United States, including the employees' strike at Henke & Pillot stores in Houston.
The following documents are included: Letter from C. F. Richardson, dated September 25, 1938, to Governor James V. Allred with copies of letters attached covering correspondence between Richardson and Thurgood Marshall, the "Houston Plan" of city...
National Negro Business League (U.S.) ; Chicago Negro Chamber of Commerce ; Houston Defender ; Marchman, G. Stevens ; Albert, Alma ; Richardson, Clifton Frederick, 1892-1939
Letter from C. F. Richardson to Thurgood Marshall, NAACP Legal Staff, enclosing a copy of the suit filed in the United States District Court for Southern Texas by four members of the Houston Branch NAACP.
Letter from NAACP Special Counsel, dated October 8, 1937, to C. F. Richardson with acknowledgment and thanks for the marked copy of the October 2nd issue of the Houston Defender. The NAACP Counsel also asked that he be kept advised of the progress...
