Oral History Project
Recorded interviews with elders, preserved in a permanent community archive.
WHO IT'S FOR
Elders, families, and researchers.
HOW TO GET INVOLVED
Nominate an elder or train as a volunteer interviewer.
S.T.A.H.N. Domain · History
Preserving our ancestors' legacy.
History gathers, protects, and teaches the record of African-descended life in South Texas — from Juneteenth to the families still writing this story.
Programs
Recorded interviews with elders, preserved in a permanent community archive.
Elders, families, and researchers.
Nominate an elder or train as a volunteer interviewer.
A traveling exhibit tracing emancipation and Black Texan life from 1865 to today.
Schools, libraries, churches, and civic groups.
Request the exhibit for your venue or docent a weekend.
Hands-on sessions on tracing ancestry through census, church, and freedmen records.
Anyone researching their family line.
Register for a quarterly workshop; laptops provided.
Research and advocacy to document and mark significant Black heritage sites.
Neighborhoods, congregations, and preservationists.
Submit a site for research review.
Curriculum kits and guest speakers bringing local Black history into schools.
Teachers and students, grades 4–12.
Educators can request a kit or schedule a speaker.
Volunteer, nominate a neighbor, or submit your program idea through the member portal.
Celebrating African Heritage in South Texas
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