On this episode of "Around Texas with Chancellor John Sharp," we visit the archives of Prairie View A&M University, where Getty Images has stepped in to help provide a platform and preservation method for photos from this exceptional HBCU’s extraordinary past.
Kimberly M. Gay, M.L.S. Head of Reference and Information Services Department; Academic Reference and Instruction Librarian II John B. Coleman Library, Prairie View A&M University What inspired you to become a librarian? I was motivated to become a librarian from my work-study job I had as an undergraduate in the Blagg-Huey Library of Texas Woman’s University. I
Juneteenth is one of the oldest known celebrations commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19 that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas, with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free.
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 4, 2023) – The Special Collections & Archives Department at Prairie View A&M University has received a $450,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The funds helped establish the Digital PV Panther Project, which aims to eliminate the silences and erasures surrounding the history of PVAMU. The project is
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas - Two-thousand and twenty-two – what a year for Prairie View A&M University! As 2023 begins, let’s look at the most notable items accomplished on “The Hill” over the last 365 days. 1. PVAMU achieved the prestigious Carnegie R2 Classification. PVAMU kicked off 2022 with a bang. The University attained
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Dec. 16, 2022) - The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive, has chosen Prairie View A&M University junior Delicia Drain as one of its 2022-2023 Student Ambassadors. The program recruited 14 Student Ambassadors, representing 11 colleges and universities across the country. As one of the faces of the
Earlier this year, Prairie View A&M University was selected as one of four recipients of the inaugural Getty Images Photo Archive Grant for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, an initiative aimed at preserving and amplifying the invaluable visual history of HBCUs. This week, representatives from Getty Images were on “The Hill” to help start the
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (June 13, 2022) – This summer, PVAMU Distance Services Librarian Elizabeth Jean Brumfield, M.L.I.S., A.B.D., is participating in the Association of Research Libraries Leadership Fellows Program.
Elizabeth Jean Brumfield, M.L.I.S., A.B.D. PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (June 13, 2022) - This summer, PVAMU Distance Services Librarian Elizabeth Jean Brumfield, M.L.I.S., A.B.D., is participating in the Association of Research Libraries Leadership Fellows Program. ARL, which has been around since 1932, is a small group of top research universities in the U.S. and
As a child, Becky Vanderslice often visited family near Prairie View, where her relatives had lived for generations. One day while playing, she and her cousin came upon a ledger listing names, ages, skin colors and dollar amounts. The document was part of her family’s seldom-discussed history. Her relative, Col. Jared Kirby had owned the