Texas Southern University to House Official NAACP Archives

Style Magazine Newswire | 8/15/2017, 12:28 p.m.
Texas Southern University will soon be home to Texas NAACP official records. On August 17 at 10:00 a.m., Texas NAACP …
Texas Southern University

HOUSTON (August 15, 2017) - Texas Southern University will soon be home to Texas NAACP official records. On August 17 at 10:00 a.m., Texas NAACP officers will designate TSU as the official depository for its records to preserve the organizations history and to ensure scholars will peruse these materials and record the struggles and accomplishments of the NAACP in Texas. The collection will consist of minutes, newspaper clippings, legal documents, brochures, Freedom Banquet programs, and pictures including digitized images from individual Texas NAACP branches. Individual branches, or active NAACP members can send their materials to Texas Southern. The collection will be housed in the Texas Southern University Robert J. Terry Department of Special Collections.

For more information or if you would like to attend this event, please call 713-313-7885 or email events@tsu.edu.

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