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Descriptive Summary

Historical Note

Scope and Contents

Arrangement

Restrictions

Index Terms

Administrative Information

Detailed Description

Houston Public Library, Houston Metropolitan Research Center

Hicks Family Collection:

An Inventory of Records at the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library



Descriptive Summary

CreatorHicks, Maggie
TitleHicks Family Collection
Inclusive Date1890's-1960's
IdentificationMSS 190
Extent5 boxes
LanguageMaterials are in English.
RepositoryHouston 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.

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Scope and Contents

This 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.

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Arrangement

Materials 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.

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Restrictions

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.

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Index Terms

Subjects (Persons)
Hicks family
Subjects
African Americans--Texas--Houston

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Hicks Family Collection. MSS 190. Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Rhisa Wilson, 1981.

Processing Information

Processed by Howard Beeth, 1982.

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Detailed Description

 
BoxFolder
11Houston Public School graduation certificate, Bertram Hicks, 1911, 1915

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BoxFolder
12YMCA Membership Card, Charles Hicks, 1918

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BoxFolder
13Houston Colored High School Commencement Program, 1920

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BoxFolder
14Postcard to William Hicks, 1924

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BoxFolder
15Advertising Card, Rialto Dancing Class, William Hicks, Instructor, 1920's?

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BoxFolder
16Notice of Employment, Houston Public Schools, Maggie Johnson, 1919

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BoxFolder
17Report Cards, Prairie View Normal and Industiral College, Maggie Fletcher (Hicks), 1924

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BoxFolder
18Report Cards, Houston Colored Junior College, Maggie Hicks, 1927-1932

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19Graduation Announcement, Houston Negro College, 1936

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BoxFolder
110Houston Department of Recreation Certificates, Maggie Hicks, 1929-1930's?

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111College Transcripts and Correspondence, Maggie Hicks, 1935, 1946

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BoxFolder
112Press clippings about the Hicks family, 1939

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113Report Cards, Bruce Elementary School; Booker T. Washington; Harper Junior High School; Phillis Wheatley High School, and Wheatley Graduation Invitation, Betty L. Hicks, 1935-1946

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114Correspondence regarding educational workshops taught by Maggie Fletcher Hicks, 1946-1947, 1957-1958

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115Certificates of Award, Maggie Fletcher Hicks, 1946-1947, 1952, 1964

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116Certificates of Award, Betty L. Hicks, 1945-1946, 1954, 1958

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117Birth Certificate, Maggie Walterine Johnson, 1942; Marriage Certificate, Earnest Blevins Wilson and Betty L. Hicks, 1953; Birth Certificate, Rhisa M. Wilson, 1956

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BoxFolder
118Miscellaneous

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BoxFolder
21Bachelor of Science Degree, Houston College for Negroes, Maggie Fletcher Hicks, 1936

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22Yearbook, "The Beacon," Houston College for Negroes, 1936

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23Master in Education Degree, Houston College for Negroes/University of Houston, Maggie Fletcher Hicks, 1946

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BoxFolder
24Yearbook, "The Tiger," Texas State University (later known as Texas Southern University), 1948

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BoxFolder
24Yearbook, "The Tiger," Texas State University (later known as Texas Southern University), 1949

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BoxPhotograph
31-99Photographs, 1890's-1960's

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BoxPhotograph
4100-206Photographs, 1890's-1960's

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BoxPhotograph
5207-241Photographs, 20th century

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