Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture

05/04/2017

For release in October: https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/hurd-thursday-night-lights

Telling an inspiring, largely unknown story, Thursday Night Lights recounts how African American high school football programs produced championship teams and outstanding players during the Jim Crow era.

02/16/2017

02/03/2017

The TIPHC will open its 2017 Black History Month exhibit, “HBCU Architects – Then, Now, the Future" at the TIPHC Gallery, School of Architecture, on Monday, Feb. 6, at 2 p.m. The display will focus on "PV Designs," the professional works and award-winning designs -- local and international -- of PVAMU SOA alumni. Refreshments will be served. Come out and see some of the spectacular work being done by former SOA students as well as a look at the history of black architects.

For more information, contact: Michael Hurd, TIPHC Director, x9836, email: [email protected]. The exhibit is a precursor to the 2017 HBCU Architects Forum which will be hosted by the SOA on Feb. 23-25 with architecture students from Florida A&M, Hampton, Howard, Morgan State, Tuskegee, University of the District of Columbia, and PVAMU displaying their works.

12/16/2016

Our efforts have been embraced by a historically black college that values the power of history and wants to advance the work.

12/07/2016

7 – On this day in 1941, Navy messman Doris Miller, a Waco native was aboard the USS West Virginia when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Miller moved several wounded sailors to safety and then manned an anti-aircraft gun, for which he had no training (because the Navy limited black sailors to non-combat roles and menial duties), and fired at attacking planes. For his actions, Miller was the first African-American to be awarded the Navy’s second highest honor, the Navy Cross.

08/03/2016

The lead story in this week's newsletter is about the recently dedicated Montford Point Marines memorial for the first black members of the Marine Corps. Exceptional men in WWII, though the Corps was against their enlistments. Also posted is the story of Palestine, TX native Alfred Masters, the first black to join the Marines. Take a look. http://www.pvamu.edu/tiphc/2016/08/03/tiphc-newsletter-july-31-aug-6-2016/

Montford Point Marines Honored with Memorial MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina -- Montford Point, North Carolina. This was segregated training ground from 1942 to 1949 for the nation’s first African-American Marines.

06/25/2016

The latest entry for our online encyclopedia, "Emancipation Means Migration," researched and written by Starita Smith, PhD., who looks into the immediate aftermath of emancipation (Juneteenth) for newly-freed slaves in Texas. http://www.pvamu.edu/tiphc/research-projects/emancipation-means-migration/

05/26/2016

As an Air Force veteran (including one year in Vietnam), I'll certainly honor this weekend those who have fallen in service to our country. Hope you will as well. As a historian, would like to point out this version of the origins of the holiday -- by freed slaves following the Civil War:

This occurred in Charleston, SC to honor 257 dead Union Soldiers who had been buried in a mass grave in a Confederate prison camp. They dug up the bodies and worked for 2 weeks to give them a proper burial as gratitude for fighting for their freedom. Together with teachers and missionaries, Black re...

05/12/2016

Awesome!

Share your pictures, videos, and stories from your visit to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on our social media. We might even feature you in one of our promotions!

05/12/2016

This week's newsletter. The lead article about Jesse Washington gave me chills, but then a warm feeling about humanity talking with Jo Welter at the Community Race Relations Coalition in Waco. Her group has organized a commemoration ceremony for Sunday marking the 100th year (calling it an anniversary doesn't, in this instance, seem right) since his horrendous lynching in the city. If you're unfamiliar with the Washington incident, it was savagely horrendous even for a lynching, shocked a nation that was numb from the persistent stories of black people being hung, especially in the South, and continues to haunt Waco's image. In Sunday's program, the city will, for the first time, officially acknowledge what is called "The Waco Horror." Read about it here. Warning, graphic detail. http://www.pvamu.edu/tiphc/2016/05/11/tiphc-newsletter-may-8-14-2016/

May 15: Memorial service in Waco for Jesse Washington, centennial of horrific lynching (Warning: This entry contains graphic details.) One hundred years ago this week, Jesse Washington, an eighteen-year-old African American man, was burned at the stake in Waco.

04/27/2016

Good read: "Today, the first black president is preparing to leave office and a woman is fighting for the Democratic nomination...Shirley Chisholm paved the way for both of them. But in an interview towards the end of her life, she downplayed her run for the White House relative to the whole of her life.

“I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of The United States,” Chisholm said, “but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.”

The congresswoman tried to win the White House by consolidating the black vote and the women's vote, but she ran into trouble