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TIPHC Newsletter, Mar. 15-21, 2020

How an African Slave in Boston Helped Save Generations from Smallpox In the early 1700s, Onesimus shared a revolutionary way to prevent smallpox. Image: A Boston advertisement for a cargo of about 250 slaves recently arrived from Africa circa 1700, particularly stressing that the slaves are free of smallpox, having been quarantined on their [...]

2023-04-26T14:03:17-05:00March 18, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Featured|

TIPHC Newsletter, Mar. 8-14, 2020

Newly Found Letters Show How Texas Longhorns Delayed Integration Photo: The University of Texas football program has a storied history. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) (WBUR) Asher Price was one of approximately 97,000 fans in the stadium when the University of Texas played Kansas in October of last year. "The crowd was overflowing with burnt orange [...]

2023-04-26T14:37:41-05:00March 10, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Featured|

TIPHC Newsletter, Mar. 1-7, 2020

How Martin Luther King Jr. and Motown Saved the Sound of the Civil Rights Movement Photo: Martin Luther King, Jr. with Berry Gordy, actress Lena Horne, and musician Billy Taylor, in August 1963 at a Southern Christian Leadership Conference benefit program in Atlanta, Georgia. (Courtesy Motown Museum) (Time.com) You know Martin Luther King Jr.’s [...]

2023-04-26T14:05:33-05:00March 4, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Featured|

TIPHC Newsletter, Feb. 23-29, 2020

Descendants -- A Washington Post original series Image: “The Principal Varieties of Mankind,” drawn by British artist John Emslie in the mid-19th century. (Science Museum Group Collection) (The Washington Post) For many Americans, blended ancestry is an integral part of their identity. The mosaic of hyphenated heritages preserves cultural connections beyond the United States, [...]

2023-04-27T13:39:12-05:00February 26, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Featured|

TIPHC Newsletter, Feb. 16-22, 2020

Save the date, call for presentations! 2020 Aya Symposium at PVAMU K-12 Texas educators attending the event will receive 7 CPE credits! Following on the success of last year's event, the 2020 Aya Symposium, in association with the Texas Purple Hull Pea Festival, is set for Friday, June 5, at Prairie View A&M University. [...]

2023-04-26T14:41:56-05:00February 19, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Featured|

TIPHC Newsletter, Feb. 9-15, 2020

The importance of black history and why it should be celebrated beyond February Photo: Visitors tour the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images, FILE) (ABC News) In 1925, Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson, known as the "Father of Black History," had a bold idea. That year, he announced "Negro History [...]

2023-04-27T13:37:01-05:00February 12, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Featured|

TIPHC Newsletter, Feb. 2-8, 2020

An enslaved man was crucial to the Lewis and Clark expedition’s success. Clark refused to free him afterward. Photo: Ed Hamilton's York statue on Riverfront Plaza in Louisville. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images) (Washington Post) York had done his job superbly. Whether the enslaved, 30-something black man wanted to participate in Lewis and Clark’s expedition to [...]

2023-04-26T15:11:33-05:00February 5, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Featured|

TIPHC Newsletter, Dec. 8-14, 2019

How Harry S. Truman went from being a racist to desegregating the military Photo: U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Edward Williams, right, shakes hands with President Harry S. Truman at a casual meeting during the president’s morning walk. (Harry S. Truman Library and Museum) (The Washington Post) Harry S. Truman didn’t start out as [...]

2023-04-27T13:49:35-05:00December 11, 2019|2019 Fall, African American Texas History, Featured|

TIPHC Newsletter, Dec. 1-7, 2019

Legends reflect on how Corpus Christi led way to integrate high school football in Texas Miller Bucs star Bobby Smith and others from the Corpus Christi area helped lead the way to integrating high school football in Texas (Corpus Christi Caller-Times) One Saturday morning in the fall of 1959, Bobby Smith would’ve been found [...]

2023-04-26T12:49:57-05:00December 4, 2019|2019 Fall, African American Texas History, Featured|

TIPHC Newsletter, Nov. 24-30, 2019

The Electoral College’s Racist Origins More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that. Photo by Frank Scherschel/The Life Picture Collection/Getty (The Atlantic) Is a color-blind political system possible under our Constitution? If it is, the Supreme Court’s evisceration of the Voting Rights [...]

2023-04-26T11:00:34-05:00November 27, 2019|2019 Fall, African American Texas History, Featured|

Contents

-- The Troubling History of Big Tobacco’s Cozy Ties With Black Leaders

-- African-American books of Interest, 2015-2016

-- Black Artists and the March Into the Museum

-- As it nears its 50th year, Kwanzaa strives for relevance

-- TBHPP Bookshelf: "No Color Is My Kind, The Life of Eldrewey Stearns and the Integration of Houston"

-- This Week In Texas Black History, Dec. 20-26

-- Ron Goodwin Blog

-- Submissions wanted

Contents

-- A brief history of Islam in America

-- New book chronicles African-American characters in "The Little Rascals"

-- Study: Black athletes and “The height of hypocrisy in higher education”

-- TBHPP Bookshelf: "Disney's Most Notorious Film: Race, Convergence, and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South"

-- This Week In Texas Black History, Dec. 27-Jan. 2

-- Ron Goodwin Blog

-- Submissions wanted