Briscoe Center Guide to Civil Rights and Social Justice Materials

Vertical files are collections of newspaper clippings, ephemera, printed material and other items collected by the Briscoe Center on various local and regional topics. The items collected span several decades and staff continue to update the files with new items. Although the files are not a comprehensive source of information on any topic, they are a good place to start for general information for research topics. 

The files listed below are only a small selection of vertical files.

Vertical Files: Biographical 

• Adair, Christia V. (Houston civil rights leader) 

• Anderson, Ada Collins (Austin educational and social activist) 

• Anderson, L. C. (Pioneer black educator in Southwest, d.1938) 

• Angelou, Maya (poet, activist, writer)* 

• Armstrong, T. D. (Galveston civil rights leader, d. 1972) 

• Brewer, Lettie June Harden (First black woman admitted to UT) 

• Cleaver, Grace (21 year old university student arrested in a demonstration of black and Mexican-American students in 1968) 

• Craft, Juanita (Leader in the Texas Civil Rights Movement for fifty years, died in 1985) 

• Daniels, Christia V. Adair (Civil rights activist and former Houston teacher) 

• Farmer, James 

• Gage, Willie Octavia Sampson (Civil rights activist) 

• Gregory, Dick (Comedian and human rights activist) 

• Johnson, Lyndon Baines (20 scrapbooks) 

• Jordan, Barbara C. (3 scrapbooks) 

• King, Martin Luther, Jr. 

• Means, Bertha (Austin civil rights leader) 

• Overton, Volma (civil rights activist; retired from post office after 33 years in 1985; retired as president of Austin NAACP in 1983) 

• Rice, Friendly Rudolph (educator and community activist in Austin) 

• Sweatt, Heman Marion (1 scrapbook) 

• Wilkins, Roy 

Vertical Files: Libraries

• Lyndon B. Johnson Library & Museum (LBJ Library) - Civil Rights Summit (April 8-10, 2014) 

Vertical Files: Subject

• Barbara Jordan 

• Blacks (3 scrapbooks) 

• Blacks - Integration (7 scrapbooks) 

• Blacks - UT 

• Blacks in Texas (1 scrapbook) 

• Busing 

• Civil Rights 

• Demonstrations - UT (2 scrapbooks) 

• Education - Blacks 

• Education - Laws and Regulations 

• Education - Minorities 

• Integration and Segregation 

• Integration, Racial 

• Integration - UT (2 scrapbooks) 

• Juneteenth (1 scrapbook) 

• NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) 

• Protests 

• Segregated Schools 

• Student Activism - UT 

• Sweatt, Heman Symposium on Civil Rights 

• Women - Blacks

Vertical Files: Texas Authors

• Farmer, J. Leonard 

Vertical Files: Texas Cities

• Austin, Texas - Civil Rights