Texas Juneteenth Day Celebration, 1900. Credit: Austin History Center Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) is the official name of the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Observed annually on June 19, [...]
Many of the foods featured in our latest exhibit, Gather ‘Round the Table: Troup County’s Culinary History, became Southern favorites after long and convoluted journeys from exotic origins. That is not the case with pecans. A [...]
CORNBREAD & HOPPIN’ JOHN The Contributions of the Enslaved Community The influences for many of the Southern foods we have come to know, descend to us from colonial and antebellum slave quarters. Southern food is derived from [...]
Within our stacks, we have a small collection of just over thirty photographs. Surprisingly, these photographs dating to the late 1940s and early 1950s are not rendered in the black and white that is common to the [...]
Dr. John Henry Jordan The images show Dr. Jordan Henry Jordan, his wife, Mollie, and their son, Edward. In celebration of Black History Month, we are examining the contributions of African-Americans in Troup County. Dr. [...]
Dorothy K. Harrison In celebration of Black History Month, we are examining the contributions and history of African-Americans in Troup County. So often, important people of color have slipped through the cracks of history. One of those [...]
Beginning in May of 1961, Civil Rights activists began staging protests against the enforcement of public bus integration in the South. Despite two U.S. Supreme Court decisions legalizing integration, many Southern states continued to enforce state and [...]
In celebration of Black History Month, we are examining the contributions of African-Americans in Troup County. From 1949 to 1968, Callaway Mills published the Callaway Beacon, a regular newsmagazine for its employees. Within the magazine’s pages are [...]
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