From slavery to freedom, to education, to achievement: these words reflect the goals of African Americans who first came as slaves with the Spanish to this part of the Texas coast. Freed by the Civil War on Juneteenth (June 19, 1865), blacks soon established an active and viable community, a significant part of which was defined by the black churches. Prominent leaders emerged, including Solomon Melvin Coles, H. Boyd Hall, Rufus Avery, and Gloria Randle Scott. Using photographs from individual collections, as well as the Corpus Christi Public Library, Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History, and Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, African Americans in Corpus Christi reveals the history and people of Corpus Christi.

African Americans in Corpus Christi (Images of America)

Arts & Photography

Venable, Cecilia Gutierrez

Glasrud, Bruce A.

O’Rear, Mary Jo

Scott, Gloria Randle

Williams, Henry J.

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

African Americans in the West: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources (Occasional Papers (Sul Ross State University. Center for Big Bend Studies), No. 2.)

Reference

Leckie, William H.

Champion, Laurie

Stewart, Tasha B.

Smith-Savage, Sheron

Sul Ross State University Center for Big Bend Studies

Catalogs & Directories

Sul Ross Univ Center for Big Bend

Exploring the Afro-Texas Experience is a broad-based compilation of source material on African-American history, folkways, fiction, films, and politics in Texas. Glasrud and Champion have performed a masterful job of creating a highly coherent and usable volume.

Exploring the Afro-Texas Experience: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources about Black Texans (Van Riebeeck Society)

History

Americas

Center for Big Bend Studies

Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines bibliophile as "a lover of books," or "a book collector." As such, Bruce Glasrud and Arnoldo De León have approached and accomplished the task of compiling a thorough bibliography of secondary works on Tejano scholarship—defined as those academic works that have Texas as a focus, setting, or theme, and have Mexican-descent people as their subjects. The result is a much-needed reference tool useful to academicians and lay people alike.

Bibliophiling Tejano Scholarship: Secondary Sources on Hispanic Texas (Center for Big Bend Studies Occasional Papers)

León, Arnoldo De

From slavery to freedom, to education, to achievement: these words reflect the goals of African Americans who first came as slaves with the Spanish to this part of the Texas coast. Freed by the Civil War on Juneteenth (June 19, 1865), blacks soon established an active and viable community, a significant part of which was defined by the black churches. Prominent leaders emerged, including Solomon Melvin Coles, H. Boyd Hall, Rufus Avery, and Gloria Randle Scott. Using photographs from individual collections, as well as the Corpus Christi Public Library, Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History, and Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, African Americans in Corpus Christi reveals the history and people of Corpus Christi.

African Americans in Corpus Christi

Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

Anti-Black Violence in Twentieth-Century Texas provides an arresting look at the history of violence against African Americans in Texas. From a lynching in Paris at the turn of the century to the 1998 murder of Jasper resident James Byrd Jr., who was dragged to death behind a truck, this volume uncovers the violent side of race relations in the Lone Star State. Historian Bruce A. Glasrud has curated an essential contribution to Texas history and historiography that will also bring attention to a chapter in the state’s history that, for many, is still very much a part of the present.

Anti-Black Violence in Twentieth-Century Texas

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Texas A&M University Press

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