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    Houston Public Library - African American Library at the Gregory School


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    The African American Library at the Gregory School, Houston’s first colored public school located in historic Freedmen’s Town, serves as a resource and repository to preserve, promote, and celebrate the rich history and culture of African Americans in Houston, the surrounding region and the African Diaspora.

    To accomplish its mission, the African American Library at the Gregory School will build, preserve and make accessible to historians, researchers, and the general public an incomparable collection of multi-type resources including, but not limited to, reference books, rare books, archival materials, exhibits, artifacts, oral histories and innovative programs.

    Material will be collected to provide historical information that documents and focuses on the experience of African American residents, businesses, institutions and neighborhoods throughout Houston and the surrounding region.

    Over time, this collection will grow through donations and the collection will be categorized based upon principles universal to the stories of the community: Unity, Self-determination, Collective work and Responsibility, Cooperative Economics, Purpose, Creativity and Faith.

    Materials in detail

    The African American Library at the Gregory School will house an extensive collection of primary research materials including:
    • Access to Houston Public Library databases and indexes
    • Books
    • Pamphlets
    • Periodicals
    • Photographs
    • Oral history recordings
    • Maps
    • Manuscripts
    • Newspapers and clippings
    • Personal family archives and
    • Ephemera documenting Houston’s African American History and culture.

    The library will service students and instructors from elementary to the university level as well as a wide range of researchers.

    Additionally, researchers may also want to visit other Houston Public Library Special Collections at the Clayton Genealogical Library and the Houston Metropolitan Research Center. All materials are non-circulating and for library use only.

    Services and programs are free and open to the public.

    HOURS:
    Check your local library for current hours of operation and updated information.


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