Thomas Cole Desegregation Papers

Collection

Identifier: 2007-005

Staff Only

Forms part of Houston History Archives Collection consisting of 19 boxes of very rich material: drafts of film scripts, topical files on significant segregation issues, film project proposals, VHS and Beta video tapes, correspondence related to fundraising, chapter drafts, publicity material, and a photocopy of Negro Politics and the Rise of the Civil Rights Movement in Houston, Texas (1968), a dissertation by Franklin Chandler Davidson currently available in the library’s general collection. Subject scope includes primarily 1950s and 1960s. Scope of work performed by originator occurred mostly during 1990s.

Archival order follows publication order, The Strange Demise of Jim Crow (1997), No Color is My Kind (1997), and Quentin Mease Memoirs (2001).

Dates

1963-2001

Creator

Cole, Thomas R., 1949- (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research

Conditions Governing Use

Special Collections owns the physical items in our collections, but copyright normally belongs to the creator of the materials or their heirs. The researcher has full responsibility for determining copyright status, obtaining permission to publish from copyright holders, and abiding by current copyright laws when publishing or displaying copies of Special Collections material in print or electronic form. For more information, consult the appropriate librarian. Reproduction decisions will be made by Special Collections staff on a case-by-case basis.

Extent

10.0 linear feet

Additional Description

Historical Information

Houston’s history is under-examined generally, and the African American community specifically has been overlooked. This small collection helps redress that omission with tremendous primary sources on several important local civil rights activists and probably the only video study on Houston’s desegregation process, which was itself something of an anomaly in the history of local civil rights movements.