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Notables Notables 2 Historically Black College Notables
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Andrew (Rube) Foster, a founder of Negro baseball leagues and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, |
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Shilah Phillips Shilah Phillips is an American entertainer, beauty pageant contestant, and the 2006 winner of the Miss Texas title. She is the first African American winner of the coveted crown in its 75 year history. Phillips was named first runner-up to Miss America on January 29, 2007. |
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In 1904 he founded the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools, of which he was president for the first five years. In 1966, NEA, the white teachers association, merged officially with the American Teachers Association, the historically Black teachers association originally founded as the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools.
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Richard Henry Boyd, Baptist leader, publisher, and
entrepreneur. In 1870 he organized six churches into the first black
Baptist association in Texas. In 1876 black Texas Baptists selected Boyd
as their representative to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. In
1897 he founded the National Baptist Publishing Board. The board issued
the first series of Baptist literature for blacks ever published. The
National Baptist Publishing Board soon developed into the main source of
religious literature for black Baptists throughout the world.
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