This painting by Roy Vinson Thomas is a landscape piece depicting a tree stump and mushrooms in cubist style. Cubism depicts forms using multiple geometric shapes to create depth. Many works in Texas Southern's permanent collection, particularly from the late 1970s, use this art style.
Rev. George Jones moved to the Jackson area in 1945 to work as a college instructor. He discusses his first impressions of Jackson as an educator living on the Tougaloo campus while teaching home economics. He also talks about Sunday school, family, and the positive aspects and culture of the time. The transcript contains handwritten edits.
George Jamison began working for Head Start in 1964 under Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) and decided to keep working after the change over to Mississippi Action for Progress, Inc (MAP). He talks about his travels through Mississippi to meet with communities and promote Head Start after the change. This is the first interview of 2.
In this second of two interviews, George Jamison talks about his role in policy decision and policy writing for the Head Start program. His first position in Head Start was with social services and he began writing policies from there. He also discusses the relationship between Head Start and the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
A black and white photo of an elderly George Washington Carver in his lab in the now George Washington Carver Museum. Dr. Carver has a bottle and a beaker in his hands. Carver's picture was tacken by the university's head of photography department and university photographer P.H. Polk.
The 2nd Annual Catholic Committee of the South Convention held in Birmingham, Alabama on April 22, 1941. The audio features speakers introducing what the convention is for and the theme of this particular year's convention which was "The Church and the Negro".
Georgia Ross was an educator in Mississippi for 29 years, beginning her career in 1971 when schools were still segregated. In this interview, Ms. Ross talks about the influence Robert Clark, as a state representative, had on education, saying that he was very forward thinking for a Mississippi legislator and probably ahead of his time.
Randolph’s painting shows a mother in an African dress wearing her child on her back with a chitenge. The wall is graffitied with words like pig, power, and love, and an image of a Black power fist. The work contrasts the African aesthetic of the figures with the African-American political graffiti, expressing an idea of global Blackness.
Set against a background of shotgun houses, Black people engage in a struggle to break free from chains and physical limitations. Extreme musculature and angel wings suggest supernatural strengths. A motif in Settles’ work is the power and beauty of Black hair.
Jewell Woodard Simon was an internationally acclaimed artist, teacher, and poet from Houston, TX. Ghost Harbour City depicts an urbanscape and a dock with moored boats. Horizontal and vertical lines shape the city and water and create depth. Simon blends colors to detail the light, shadow, and shape of each building and the seascape.
Norma Morgan was a painter from New Haven, Connecticut. Ghost Light shows a house and a shed that sit in the close foreground. Their wooden structures are cast in heavy shadow. There is an atmospheric background remaining with a gloomy color palette of gray, black, and white.
Ginevera Reaves helped to start the Head Start program in Benton, Mississippi, in 1965. She talks about the psychology and home economics classes she took in school, her Bachelor’s Degree in Education and her Master’s Degree in School Administration, and how that broad background gave her a unique perspective on teaching the disadvantaged.
Calvin Burnett was a graphic artist, illustrator, painter, designer, and art teacher from Cambridge, MA. Girl in Black depicts a girl standing with a smug expression, wearing a Black garment. The dress blends into the dark background, while white scratches add texture to the piece.
Calvin Burnett was a graphic artist, illustrator, painter, designer, and art teacher from Cambridge, MA. Girl Waiting depicts a young girl lying asleep with dark shadows above her.
A tribute ceremony was held to honor Fred D. Gray, an attorney and activist, for his work with the Civil Rights Movement, and several court cases represented in the Supreme Court.
Gladys Noel Bates moved to Jackson with her family in 1920 and soon after settled in the Farish Street District. She talks extensively about her entire life, including her childhood and family, attending school during desegregation, and her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.
Case Data and Exhibits for Brown III, a relitigation of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954) that corrected resegregation issues caused by open enrollment school choice in 1992. Glossary giving definitions to terms and breaking down the data in the census reports for the state of Kansas from April 1982 through April 1983.
Oliver created this notebook for an undergraduate English course. The notebook, which he made and bound by hand, includes the artist’s interpretation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s play, Faust, a Tragedy, and several original illustrations to accompany his writing.
A lawsuit filled by the Tuskegee Civic Association to challenge the illegal gerrymandering that sought to reduce the political power of Black citizens in Macon County, Alabama.
A list of questions to guide the interviewer’s through the recording of oral histories in the Good Old Days project, a series of interviews with senior citizens who talk about their lives, times, achievements, and challenges from their early childhood through the various stages of life. The questions cover topics such as religion, education, etc.
This terracotta sculpture features a mother gorilla with a child clinging to her back. The mother’s head, face, and body are adorned with spiral embellishments. A common theme featured in Texas Southern University’s permanent collection of terracotta sculptures is the relationship between mothers and their children.
