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The African American Heritage Project (AAHP) is a joint venture between the Department of History, The Center for East Texas Studies (CETS) at Stephen F. Austin State University, and the Black Heritage Association of Nacogdoches. Its main purpose is to research and bring into the public domain, knowleadge of the life and culture of the African American community of Nacogdoches.
The AAHP is comprised of individuals from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds in the Nacogdoches academic and non-academic community. The AAHP needs your help in gathering and preserving the African American heritage of Nacogdoches County. This organization is new, and we need people with special talents or just an eager spirit to contribute to locating and compilating pictures, artifacts, and histories.
We need individuals who will be able to volunteer for such things as:
- Interviewing
- Research
- Office Duties
- Contacting Members by Phone
- Contacting Interviewees
- Various Other Activities
If you would like to participate, please
contact Mrs. Birdie Wade at (409) 564-3832, or the AAHP
Office at (409) 468-5533. You may also stop by the AAHP
office which is Room 217 in the Ferguson Building or the
Center for East Texas Studies Office (F340) on the campus of
Stephen F. Austin State University. AAHP meeting on November 11,
1999. The end of the first year of work - reported
at the meeting - was a major triumph for the
organization. The foundations for the second year's
activities were laid at this same
meeting.
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Meet Shelton Portee, the office manager for the AAHP. Shelton is the enthusiatic student who will welcome your calls and questions if you call the AAHP at (409) 468-5533. He is from Houston, but he has family in the Nacogdoches area. |
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