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D.R. Glass Library
The D.R. Glass Library, or Dominion Robert Glass Library, is a historic building and academic library built in 1948, and located at the Texas College campus at 2404 North Grand Avenue, Tyler, Texas. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since March 7, 2007. History The D.R. Glass Library is part of Texas College, a historically black college, and was it designed by McKissack & McKissack, one of the oldest black-founded and owned architecture firms. The building was named after the former college president, Dominion Robert Glass (1895–1968). It is part of the HBCU Library Alliance. McKissack & McKissack also designed the President's House at Texas College (1942), another NRHP listed building. See also * National Register of Historic Places listings in Smith County, Texas This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Smith County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McKissack & McKissack
McKissack & McKissack is an American architecture, engineering, program management and construction firm based in Washington, D.C. It is the oldest minority-owned architecture and construction company in the United States. The firm was founded in 1905 in Nashville, Tennessee by Moses McKissack, the grandson of a slave who had been brought to the United States from west Africa and put to work making bricks. Moses III, the slave's grandson, became an accomplished carpenter and eventually teamed with his brother Calvin McKissack to found the company. The company's best-known projects are the Carnegie Library at Fisk University, built in 1908; the Nationals Park baseball stadium, the National Museum of African American History and Culture to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago and a helicopter landing pad at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library in College Station, TX. They have also participated in airport renovation and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas College
Texas College is a private, historically black Christian Methodist Episcopal college in Tyler, Texas. It is affiliated with the United Negro College Fund. It was founded in 1894 by a group of ministers affiliated with the Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church, a predominantly black denomination which was at the time known as the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America. They planned to provide for education of African-American students, who were excluded from the segregated university system of Texas. They planned a full literary, scientific and classical education for theology, normal training of lower school teachers, music, commercial and industrial training, and agricultural and mechanical sciences. History On January 9, 1894, Texas College was founded by a group of ministers affiliated with the Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church, a black denomination. They planned a full, co-educational college to serve people in eastern Texas. On June 12, 1909, the name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academic Library
An academic library is a library that is attached to a higher education institution and serves two complementary purposes: to support the curriculum and the research of the university faculty and students. It is unknown how many academic libraries there are worldwide. An academic and research portal maintained by UNESCO links to 3,785 libraries. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, there are an estimated 3,700 academic libraries in the United States. In the past, the material for class readings, intended to supplement lectures as prescribed by the instructor, has been called reserves. In the period before electronic resources became available, the reserves were supplied as actual books or as photocopies of appropriate journal articles. Modern academic libraries generally also provide access to electronic resources. Academic libraries must determine a focus for collection development since comprehensive collections are not feasible. Librarians do this by ide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyler, Texas
Tyler is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the largest city and county seat of Smith County, Texas, Smith County. It is also the largest city in Northeast Texas. With a 2020 census population of 105,995, Tyler was the List of cities in Texas by population, 33rd most populous city in Texas and List of United States cities by population, 299th in the United States. It is the principal city of the Tyler metropolitan area, Greater Tyler metropolitan statistical area, which is the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 198th most populous metropolitan area in the United States, U.S. and List of Texas metropolitan areas, 16th in Texas after Waco metropolitan area, Waco and the Bryan–College Station, College Station–Bryan areas, with a population of 233,479 in 2020. The city is named for John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States. In 1985, the international Adopt-a-Highway movement began in Tyler. After appeals from local Texas Department of Transportation officials, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by both List of U.S. states and territories by area, area (after Alaska) and List of U.S. states and territories by population, population (after California). Texas shares borders with the states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexico, Mexican States of Mexico, states of Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south and southwest; and has a coastline with the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast. Houston is the List of cities in Texas by population, most populous city in Texas and the List of United States cities by population, fourth-largest in the U.S., while San Antonio is the second most pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred in preserving the property. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts. For most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. Its goals are to help property owners and inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historically Black Colleges And Universities
Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the African-American community. Most of these institutions were founded in the years after the American Civil War and are concentrated in the Southern United States. During the period of segregation prior to the Civil Rights Act, the majority of American institutions of higher education served predominantly white students, and disqualified or limited black American enrollment. For a century after the end of slavery in the United States in 1865, most colleges and universities in the Southern United States prohibited all African Americans from attending, while institutions in other parts of the country regularly employed quotas to limit admissions of Black people. HBCUs were established to provide more opportunities to African Americans and are largely responsible for esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominion Robert Glass
Dominion Robert Glass (April 19, 1892 — October 8, 1968) was an African-American educator, academic administrator, and college president. He was the president of Texas College, a historically black college in Tyler, Texas, from 1931 until 1961. He also went by the name D. R. Glass. Early life and education Dominion Robert Glass was born in Houston County, Georgia, on April 19, 1892. His mother, Minnie (''née'' Callaway), was a homemaker, and his father, Benjamin Glass, was a preacher. He studied at Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University; A.B. 1917), followed by graduate studies at Harvard University, and a doctorate degree from Miles College (LL.D. 1946). Career He began his career in 1917, as the principal at Jackson High School in Jackson, Georgia; and at the same time teaching sociology and economics courses at Paine College in Augusta, Georgia. The following year in 1918, he became the dean of Paine College the following year. In 1919, he became the presi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas State Historical Association
The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is a non-profit educational organization, dedicated to documenting the history of Texas. It was founded in Austin, Texas, on March 2, 1897. , TSHA moved their offices from Austin to the University of North Texas in Denton. In 2015, the offices were relocated again, to the University of Texas at Austin. Overview The chief executive officer is Jesús F. de la Teja and the chief historian is Walter L. Buenger. The association president (2018-2019) is Sarita Hixon; the preceding president is (2017-2018) Paula Mitchell Marks. Other past presidents include Steve Cook (2016-2017), Lynn Denton (2015-2016), John L. Nau III (2014-2015), Gregg Cantrell (2013-2014), Watson Arnold (2012-2013), Merline Pitre (2011-2012), Dianne Garrett Powell (2010–2011) and Walter L. Buenger (2009-2010). Other past presidents are the late Robert A. Calvert (1989–1990) of Texas A&M, Alwyn Barr (1992-1993) of Texas Tech University, and Jerry D. Thompson (2001†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HBCU Library Alliance
The HBCU Library Alliance is a consortium of libraries at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Founded in 2002 by deans and directors of libraries at HBCUs, the consortium comprises over 100 member organizations. The alliance specifically represents the organizations included in the White House HBCU Initiative. In 2019 the HBCU Library Alliance entered into a national partnership with the Council on Library and Information Resources. Leadership and faculty development training The HBCU Library Alliance has provided leadership and faculty development training to member institutions through various grants and sub-granting opportunities. The alliance hosts a leadership institute for deans and directors of HBCU libraries where they learn mentoring, coaching, and strategic planning skills. The ''Expanding Library Support for Faculty Research in HBCUs Project'' was an initiative "focused on expanding and improving services in support of faculty research." In 2013, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Register Of Historic Places Listings In Smith County, Texas
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Smith County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Smith County, Texas Smith County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 233,479. Its county seat is Tyler. Smith County is named for James Smith, a general during the Texas Revolution. Smith County is part of the Tyl .... There are seven districts and 28 individual properties listed on the National Register in the county. Three individually listed properties are State Antiquities Landmarks two of which, along with six others, are Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks. Three districts contain additional Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks. Current listings The locations of National Register properties and districts may be seen in a mapping service provided. See also * National Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
