TBHPP Advisory Board
Gemeral Berry, of Dallas, is the publisher of Our Texas Magazine, an award-winning regional quarterly that has been published since 1991. Mr. Berry was graduated from then North Texas State University with a degree in journalism in 1974 and later attended law school at Texas Tech University. He also attended Howard University on a magazine publishing scholarship in 1990, one year before launching Our Texas.
Gary Bledsoe, attorney and civil rights advocate, is President of the Texas State Conference of NAACP Branches and serve on the national board of the NAACP. A civil rights attorney in private practice in Austin, Bledsoe is a graduate of the University of Texas and the University of Texas College of Law.
Dr. Maceo Crenshaw Dailey, historian, scholar and author, is Director of African American Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso, earned his Ph. D. from Howard University. He has taught at Howard, Smith College, Brown University, Boston College, Morgan State University, Spelman College, Colby College, New York University, and Morehouse College.
Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney, historian, scholar and author, is Executive Director of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at Charleston University. He earned his B.A. at Central State University in Ohio, and M.A. and Ph. D. at Ohio State University. He is the former Chairman of the Department of History of the College of Charleston.
Roland Hayes, scholar, writer and historian, is a professor of history at Austin Community College. Hayes earned his BA from Langston University and his MA from Michigan State University.
Joseph O. Jewell, Ph.D. is Interim Director of the Race & Ethnic Studies Institute at Texas A&M University and an associate Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University). His primary areas of specialization are Race and Ethnicity, Intersections of Race/Class/Gender, and Comparative/Historical Sociology. He has a BA in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA in Sociology from the University of California at Los Angeles and his Ph.D in Sociology from UCLA. He recently published “Race, Social Reform and the Making of a Middle Class: The American Missionary Association in Atlanta, 1870-1900.”
Eva Lindsey, historian and entrepreneur, is manager of the historic Victory Grill. The Victory Grill, one of the last remaining live venues of the chitlin’ circuit, is on the Texas and US Register of Historic Places. Eva is a native Austinite and a graduate of Fisk University.
Paul J. Matthews, a Vietnam veteran and African American military historian, is founder of the Buffalo Soldiers Museum in Houston. Matthews is a frequent lecturer for schools and community organizations.
Harold McMillan is the founder/director of DiverseArts Production Group, an Austin non-profit producer of multidisciplinary art and culture projects and programs. Involved and active in Austin's art and music community for the past 20 years, he is known primarily for his efforts to provide access and exposure to traditions derived from African American Culture and other forms of artistic expression outside the classical European tradition. He holds a BSW in Social Work from East Texas State University (now Texas A&M-Commerce), and a M.A.in American Civilization from UT-Austin.
Dr. Linda Reed, historian scholar and author, served nine years as the Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Houston. Between 2001 and 2003, Dr. Reed was the National Director for the Association of Black Women Historians. She has received fellowships from the University of North Carolina, the University of Michigan, the Ford Foundation, and Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington. She is currently at the University of Houston.
Karen Riles, historian and writer, has done extensive work related to African American historical sites in Texas for the Texas Historical Commission and is currently Neighborhood Liaison for the Austin History Center.
Dr. Harry Robinson, historian, is president and CEO, African American Museum in Dallas, Robinson earned his BA at Southern University, his MSLS degree from Atlanta University, and a Ph.D at University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Robinson joined Bishop College in Dallas as librarian and museum director in 1974. Robinson was able to acquire many collections for the museum. Under his leadership, a new facility was built in 1984 at Fair Park in Dallas to house the collection.
Dr. Janice L. Sumler-Edmond is a professor of United States History, African American History, and Constitutional History and Law at Huston-Tillotson University. She is also the director of the W. E. B. DuBois Honors Program. Professor Sumler-Edmond earned the Ph.D. degree in American History from Georgetown University and the J.D. degree from the UCLA School of Law. As a practicing attorney, Professor Sumler-Edmond spent a year as a Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, DC.
Dr. Dwight Watson, author, historian and scholar, is an assistant professor of history at Texas State University. He earned his BA from Henderson State University, MA Texas Southern University and Ph.d from the University of Houston.
Dr. David Williams of Austin is a retired educator and historian. Dr. Williams is author of the book “Bricks Without Straw” a Comprehensive History of African Americans in Texas.”
Herman Wright is a 20-year veteran of marketing and sales in the health care industry and a fourth generation Texan. He is also founder and president of MC3, an entertainment and educational company that focuses on the universality of the human condition with the expressed goal of connecting people and cultures through story-telling. His first documentary, “The Long Black Line: An American Story,” is about a prominent family that in 1800 was among the first settlers in his hometown, Jasper. He has a bachelor's degree in history from Texas Christian University and a law degree from the University of Texas, Austin.
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