(Left to right) Mr. and Mrs. Robert Witt, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil W. Miller, and Mr. and Mrs. James H. Calvert. Affectionaly known as ""the three wise men,"" Witt, Miller, and Calvert were instrumental in bringing Trinity to San Antonio in 1942 and...
Meeting room for the Ratio-Genic student literary societie located in the administrative/classroom building. This group consisted of male and female students.
Literature Societies, etc.; Students' societies; Classrooms
Philo-Sophronian student literary society room in the Tehuacana main building. Students were free to decorate the room and conducted their meetings free of faculty oversight. Debates and recitations were frequently held.
Andover Newton Theological School; African Americans -- Texas -- San Antonio;
Group of photographs from Reverend Black's student days at Andover Newton Theological School in the early 1940s. Reverend S.H. [Samuel Horace] James, Jr., past pastor at Second Baptist Church in San Antonio, Texas, appears in photos numbered: 22_g,...
James W. Laurie, Trinity's 14th president, served from 1951-1970. Photo was taken about 1968. It was used as a model for his portrait that now hangs in the entry way to the trustees meeting room in Northrup Hall.
Completed at a cost of $1.5 million and dedicated in 1973, the Coates Center, joined by a portico to the renovated original student union building, provides a focal point for all campus activities. A $6 million renovation project was completed in...
Elizabeth and George H. Coates University Center; Fiesta Room
Completed at a cost of $1.5 million and dedicated in 1973, the Coates Center, joined by a portico to the renovated original student union building, provides a focal point for all campus activities. A $6 million renovation project was completed in...
African Americans -- Texas -- San Antonio; Municipal government -- Texas -- San Antonio; San Antonio (Tex.)--Race relations--History.; San Antonio (Tex.). City Council.;
Scrapbook of newsclippings assembled by Reverend Black, predominantly about San Antonio local politics, city council candidates, political issues involving the East side and West side of the city, Reverend Black's own political campaigns and...
African Americans -- Texas -- San Antonio; Municipal government -- Texas -- San Antonio; San Antonio (Tex.)--Race relations--History.; San Antonio (Tex.). City Council.;
Scrapbook of newsclippings assembled by Reverend Black, predominantly about San Antonio local politics, city council candidates, political issues involving the East side and West side of the city, Reverend Black's own political campaigns, and...
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Texas -- San Antonio; Baptists -- United States -- History.; Civil rights movements -- Texas -- San Antonio;
Local politics and church news scrapbook, 1940s-1976, includes information on Reverend Black's early ministry, local politics, Mount Zion First Baptist Church
African Americans -- Texas -- San Antonio; Municipal government -- Texas -- San Antonio; San Antonio (Tex.). City Council.;
Scrapbook includes newsclippings; telegrams , cards, and letters of congratulations from community members and state and local politicians; ephemera from community events, such as Reverend Black's narration of a San Antonio Symphony event honoring...
African Americans -- Texas -- San Antonio; Civil rights movements -- Texas -- History -- 20th century; Municipal government -- Texas -- San Antonio; San Antonio (Tex.)--Race relations--History.; San Antonio (Tex.). City Council.;
Reverend Black's political campaign and local politics from 1963 through 1965 are covered in newsclippings and letters from local and Texas political figures,including Henry B. Gonzalez.
African Americans -- Texas -- San Antonio; Baptists -- United States -- History.; Civil rights movements -- Texas -- San Antonio; Municipal government -- Texas -- San Antonio; Mount Zion First Baptist Church (San Antonio, Tex.);
Scrapbook includes newspaper clippings about activities at Mount Zion First Baptist Church, Baptist news, African American community news, and Texas and San Antonio politics, from the San Antonio Register, the Fort Worth Defender and Baptist...
African Americans -- Texas -- San Antonio; Mount Zion First Baptist Church (San Antonio, Tex.);
Talk delivered at conference of The Ministers and Missionary Benefit Board of the American Baptist Churches, February 21-23, 2000. The talk focuses on African American Baptist ministry, and provides an historical overview of Reverend Black's...
Civil rights movements -- Texas -- San Antonio; Civil rights movements -- Texas -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century;
Talk by Reverend Black that addresses the relationship between the Black church, the civil rights movement, in the nation and in San Antonio. The talk is undated.
African Americans -- Texas -- San Antonio; Baptists -- United States -- History.;
Editorial in the National Baptist Union-Review by Reverend Black, expressing the need for planning for the church be done by twentieth century men of faith.