Christia V. Adair Collection 1893-1989

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Christia V. Adair Collection 1893-1989

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/houpub/00140/00140-P.html

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Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Libary

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

Democratic Party (U.S.)

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Adair, Christia V.

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Christia Adair was a black suffragette. In her later life, she actively campaigned for civil rights for blacks in Houston and in Texas. Born in victoria, Texas in 1893, to uneducated parents, she attended Samuel Huston College in Austin and Prarie View State Normal and Industrial college (now Prarie View A&M), attaining a teaching certificate in 1914. After her graduation, she moved to Edna to work as a teacher, marrying Elbert Adair in 1918. The two moved to Kingsvi...