Descriptive Summary
Hicks, Maggie
Hicks Family Collection
1890's-1960's
Materials are
in English.
MSS 190
5 boxes
Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public
Library
Historical Note
Mrs. Maggie Hicks moved to Houston with her family during the opening years of the 20th century, when she was a young girl. Like other black residents, she had to leave the city to obtain college training. She went to Atlanta, Georgia, still a center for Negro education in the United States, where she graduated from Spelman College. After her return to Houston, Mrs. Hicks taught in the public schools for over 30 years and also earned a graduate degree from the University of Houston in 1946. For most of that time she was the wife of Charles William Hicks, Jr., an employee of one of the city's most exclusive black establishments, the Houston Club.
Scope and ContentsThis collection partially documents Mrs. Hicks' life as a resident of Houston's 4th Ward and a working female professional in the city during the first half of the twentieth century. It illustrates her experiences, as well as those of her family, at educational instutitions such as Spelman in Georgia and the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama which, then as now, educated many of the nation's black elite. Over 200 photographs in this collection offer those interested in African American history a good pictorial review of four generations of a black Houston family from the 1890's to the 1960's.
ArrangementMaterials in this collection are arranged by type, chronologically, as per the following Container List. Most of the photographs in boxes 3-5 are fully identified as to date, location, and contents. Typed Photographic Identification Sheets for each individual photograph are in a separate file in the front of each box, and they are numbered with the same number as the photograph which they describe.
Access Restrictions
None.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish or reproduce materials from the Hicks Family Collection must be obtained from the Houston Metropolitan Research Center or the appropriate copyright holder.
Preferred Citation
Hicks Family Collection. MSS 190. Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston
Public Library.
Acquisition Information
Donated by Rhisa Wilson, 1981.
Processing InformationProcessed by Howard Beeth, 1982.
Index TermsSubjects (Persons)Hicks familySubjectsAfrican Americans--Texas--HoustonDetailed Description11Houston Public School graduation certificate, Bertram Hicks, 1911, 191512YMCA Membership Card, Charles Hicks, 191813Houston Colored High School Commencement Program, 192014Postcard to William Hicks, 192415Advertising Card, Rialto Dancing Class, William Hicks, Instructor, 1920's?16Notice of Employment, Houston Public Schools, Maggie Johnson, 191917Report Cards, Prairie View Normal and Industiral College, Maggie Fletcher (Hicks), 192418Report Cards, Houston Colored Junior College, Maggie Hicks, 1927-193219Graduation Announcement, Houston Negro College, 1936110Houston Department of Recreation Certificates, Maggie Hicks, 1929-1930's?111College Transcripts and Correspondence, Maggie Hicks, 1935, 1946112Press clippings about the Hicks family, 1939113Report Cards, Bruce Elementary School; Booker T. Washington; Harper Junior High School; Phillis Wheatley High School, and Wheatley Graduation Invitation, Betty L. Hicks, 1935-1946114Correspondence regarding educational workshops taught by Maggie Fletcher Hicks, 1946-1947, 1957-1958115Certificates of Award, Maggie Fletcher Hicks, 1946-1947, 1952, 1964116Certificates of Award, Betty L. Hicks, 1945-1946, 1954, 1958117Birth Certificate, Maggie Walterine Johnson, 1942; Marriage Certificate, Earnest Blevins Wilson and Betty L. Hicks, 1953; Birth Certificate, Rhisa M. Wilson, 1956118Miscellaneous21Bachelor of Science Degree, Houston College for Negroes, Maggie Fletcher Hicks, 193622Yearbook, "The Beacon," Houston College for Negroes, 193623Master in Education Degree, Houston College for Negroes/University of Houston, Maggie Fletcher Hicks, 194624Yearbook, "The Tiger," Texas State University (later known as Texas Southern University), 194824Yearbook, "The Tiger," Texas State University (later known as Texas Southern University), 194931-99Photographs, 1890's-1960's4100-206Photographs, 1890's-1960's5207-241Photographs, 20th century