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[Links Chapter Documentation: Newspaper copy item about Jackson, Mississippi chapter of The Links, Inc.] (open access)

[Links Chapter Documentation: Newspaper copy item about Jackson, Mississippi chapter of The Links, Inc.]

Unpublished newspaper copy for an article to be headlined "Black Civic Groups Wants [sic] to Honor Veteran Journalist" about the efforts of the Jackson, Mississippi chapter of The Links, Inc. to raise funds to assist Hazel Brannon Smith. Smith was a publisher and journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for her editorials in support of the civil rights movement, a stance which resulted in her ostracism from local white society and her newspaper's eventual bankruptcy. Aaronetta Pierce (referred to here as A. M. Pierce) passed this unpublished copy of the article on to Margaret Winn, president of the San Antonio chapter. Includes handwritten notes.
Date: January 31, 1986
Creator: Gonzalez, Henry B. (Henry Barbosa), 1916-2000 & Andrews, Thelma
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[1st Texas Battalion Drum and Fife Corp]

Photograph of the 1st Texas Battalion Drum and Fife Corp. performing at the 15th Annual Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The two rows of Corps members wear white shirts, red suspenders, and black pants and a black hats. Members of the audience watch the performance around the open, grassy area.
Date: [1986-07-31..1986-08-03]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Funeral Program for Mirl Calvin, May 31, 1986] (open access)

[Funeral Program for Mirl Calvin, May 31, 1986]

Funeral program for Mirl Calvin, died May 1986. The funeral was held May 31, 1986 at Mount Zion First Baptist Church, officiated by Rev. Claude W. Black.
Date: May 31, 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Manuel Urbina to Thomas H. Kreneck - 1986-10-31] (open access)

[Letter from Manuel Urbina to Thomas H. Kreneck - 1986-10-31]

Letter from Manuel Urbina, II, to Thomas H. Kreneck, Director of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, dated October 31, 1986. The letter accompanied seventeen documents and two folders containing information on the life and work on Reverend Manuel Urbina, of the Magnolia Baptist Church in Houston, Texas. The donation to the Houston Metropolitan Research Center also includes a book written about Urbina by his widow, Irene Salce de Urbina.
Date: October 31, 1986
Creator: Urbina, Manuel
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History