A blue and green selection on a white cover. Selection contains an illustration of a church and two persons - a man and a woman - walking in the direction of the church. Trees and bushes are in the foreground, while a body of white and the night...
Bryant, Thelma Scott, 1905-;
Centenarians--Texas--Houston--Interviews;
Segregation--Texas--Houston--History;
African Americans--Texas--Houston--Social life and customs--History;
Oral histories
Thelma Scott Bryant, a centenarian from Houston, talks about her life as an African American growing up at the beginning of the 20th century. She describes the black community where she grew up; the churches, schools, theaters and businesses; and...
Impressive stone church building. Possibly a limestone or yellow brick with white stone grand architectural embellishments. The grand entrance has two columns at least two stories in heighth capped with Ionic style caps and a massive frieze above...
Christian Sanitorium appears to be a two story white wooden siding building with a half story accomodated with many dormer windows interspursed along the steep pitched roof. Three red brick chimneys are visible in the postcard. There is a...
Grand brick church with a square tower, Gothic (pointed top) arches, and apparently two sets of stairs into an entrance porch. A red brick home with a white wraparound porch is to the right of the church. In this year of 2011, the First United...
"These three volumes tell the story of a courtship that began between two people who had never seen each other, and lasted for fifty-six years. Most people know this couple as Rev. William and Mrs. Audrey Hoffman Lawson. Audrey wrote to William on...
Paulette Williams Grant talks about attending Gregory elementary school, a school that tended to black children during desegregation years, and race relations in Houston during those times.
