Scope and Contents This collection contains clippings of "Houston Heritage" articles from the Houston Business Journal, a weekly publication that covers local business news across the Greater Houston region. "Houston Heritage" was a weekly column that featured biographical and historical profiles on a wide range of individuals, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and other topics concerning Houston and Texas as a whole. The articles were written primarily by Houston historian Betty Trapp Chapman, as well as...

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The NAACP Houston Branch Records contains organizational correspondence, pamphlets, reports, inter-office memos, newsclippings, membership reports, financial statements, and administrative files on meeting agendas and minutes.

Scope and Contents From McBride Rare Books: "A striking photograph of the men and women comprising the "National Staff" of the Wonderful Workers of the World (WWOW), likely at a national convention in Houston in the early 1920s. The WWOW was an African American benevolent society chartered in Texas in 1920.... The WWOW is obscure even in newspaper records, where a 1923 advertisement records them offering life insurance. The...photograph shows eighteen men and thirteen women, many wearing...

Scope and Contents Souvenir program includes photographs and brief biographies of Black community leaders including Mr. R.I. Andrews, Rev. F.L. Lights, Hon. Van H. McKinney, Rev. Jack Yates, Mrs. W.E. Miller, Hon. W.J. Hardeway, Rev. Elias Dibble, Dean R. O'Hara Lanier, Mrs. Mabel Wesley, Mr. Wilfred Price, Prof. J.N. Dotson, Prof. W.L.D. Johnson, Prof. W.S. Francis, Dean J.T. Fox, Hon. J. Vance Lewis, Prof. John M. Codwell, Prof. E.O. Smith, Prof. W.E. Miller, Dr. W.W. Dogan, Mr. W.E. (Ned) Jones, Prof. James...

Scope and Contents This collection contains administrative and publicity materials from the Top Ladies of Distinction, a Houston-based service organization incorporated in 1964. Materials include minutes, budgets, programs, scrapbooks, and issues of the organization's annual publication, "The Crown." The collection also contains materials on the Top Teens of America, a program sponsored by the Top Ladies of Distinction to further serve young people. These materials include a brochure, two annual...