FEBRUARY 2020

Paying tribute to Harrison County

African Americans' contributions

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THE ARTS: FLOYD DIXON

Harrison County Historical Museum, Inez Hatiey Hughes Research & Collection Center: We're adding to our African American History Collection by creating a Subject File on Floyd Dixon.

Websites: YouTube; All Music

MATH & SCIENCES: WALTER SAMUEL McAFEE

Harrison County Historical Museum, Inez Hatiey Hughes Research & Collection Center:  FS1650-Print, Photographic; FF2017A-Subject Files; The Black Citizen and American Democracy: Black Culture in Harrison County, Past, Present and Future-Library.

Websites: Math's History, University of Buffalo, Vimeo 

MEDICINE: DR. JAMES R. SHEPPARD

Harrison County Historical Museum, Inez Hatiey Hughes Research & Collection Center:  FF1454-Print, Photographic; Other African American Doctors, Subject Files FF937A; Library-The Black Citizen and American Democracy: Black Culture in Harrison County, Past, Present and Future; Archive The Buard History Trail brochure.

Websites: The Portal to Texas History; East Texas History; African-American Owned & Operated Hospitals

EDUCATION: LOLLARETTA PEMBERTON

Harrison County Historical Museum, Inez Hatiey Hughes Research & Collection Center:  Subject Files FF 1254B, 1254C; Library-The Black Citizen and American Democracy: Black Culture in Harrison County, Past, Present and Future; Archive The Buard History Trail brochure.

Links:  Home Economics Training and African American Women;  Lollaretta Pemberton Allen's Collection at Smithsonian; Lollaretta Pemberton Allen's Wedding Album Transcription Project

CIVIL RIGHTS: PATRICIA ANDERSON

Harrison County Historical Museum, Inez Hatiey Hughes Research & Collection Center:  Subject Files FF 922A, 380; 381; DD 1-CIVIL RIGHTS; Photographs FS95, FS165, FS1851, FS1852.  Library 976.4192 Beil.  

Links:  A Timeline of Marshall's Civil Rights Sit-ins; Los Angeles Times; Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

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PLACES IN THE HEART

Our first rotating exhibition at Patricia A. Vaughan Mezzanine Gallery explores the communities of the Waskom School District
EXHIBITION DATES: December 12, 2019-June 30, 2020

Places in the Heart: Our Harrison County Communities of the Waskom Independent School District is the first exhibition in a three-year focus on the history of Harrison County's towns and rural communities.  The communities of each of the county's six school districts will be featured for six months in the Mezzanine Gallery. The current exhibition about Waskom and Jonesville tells the history of eastern Harrison County.   

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A DECADE IN THE MAKING

Service & Sacrifice: Harrison County at War exhibit gallery now open in Memorial City Hall

"...easily comparable in quality and interactivity
of The National WWII Museum in New Orleans."

"...stunning military exhibit."

"International standards were used in mounting the exhibit."

"So much planning and thoughtfulness resulting in a great exhibit and the ultimate tribute to those who served
from Harrison County, Texas!"

A daughter is delighted when she finds her father in the exhibit

Veterans wearing recognition lanyards as they find fellow veterans in "Global Connections" interactive

Listening in on history at "Joining Up."

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This project made possible in part by the

Award Number MA-10-14-0090-14

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    2020

THRU JUNE 30

PLACES IN THE HEART: Our Harrison County Communities of the Waskom ISD

MEMORIAL CITY HALL, PATRICIA A. VAUGHAN MEZZANINE GALLERY

MARCH

  3                RIGHT OR WRONG: JAPANESE AMERICANS
              IN WORLD WAR II

Smithsonian poster exhibit opens. We'll include the story of Japanese Caddo Lake pearl fisherman George Murato. 

MEMORIAL CITY HALL, PATRICIA A. VAUGHAN MEZZANINE GALLERY



28         WOMEN IN EAST TEXAS HISTORY

                Our second annual symposium featuring women who impacted
            East Texas.  It's FREE thanks to a generous grant from
            the Union Pacific Foundation.

                TOPIC: Harriet Potter Ames & the Pioneer Women of Caddo Lake