Southern University Shreveport Louisiana Archives

03/05/2015

Campus cool!

03/05/2015

Louisiana Higher Education forum is set for Thursday night at Southern University-Shreveport

03/03/2015

Congratulations to students Sherrondalyn Forrest and Denise Mitchell who recently won The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History posters from the archives!

03/02/2015

Views of Shreveport's Sprague Street as rendered by Charles E. Lovelace

03/02/2015

The art of Charles E. Lovelace is currently on display in the library. Included in the exhibit are paintings, models of local landmarks, and paper mache figurines.

02/26/2015

In honor of Black History Month 2015, Caddo Parish public school students were invited to submit artwork inspired by the theme "A Century of Black Life, History, and Culture."

02/26/2015

There are only a few days remaining to check out the "Making It Modern" student art exhibit currently on display at the Southern University Museum of Art at Shreveport!

Celebrating the past, present, and future! Southern University at Shreveport Museum of Art is commemorating black history month through art work.

02/26/2015

In celebration of Black History Month, SUSLA's library hosted "Revel in Your Roots Family History Day" on February 21, 2015.

Erica Hubbard, founder of the Red River Sankofa blog, and Shreve Memorial Library librarians Reed Mathews and Hailley Harvey conducted genealogy workshops.

Artist Wendell Wilson and Priscilla Metoyer of the Multicultural Center of the South instructed students in folk art creation.

02/26/2015

Thank you to everyone who attended Southern University's "Revel in Your Roots" Family History Day!

Special acknowledgements are extended to our presenters Erica Hubbard, Reed Mathews, Hailley Harvey, and Wendell Wilson who helped make the day so special!

Genealogy workshops help residents discover ancestry.

01/28/2015

Muriel Belton Boyd (February 18, 1910-August 7, 2000) was a prominent Shreveport educator. As a young woman, she attended Southern University, Baton Rouge, and was very active in civic and religious organizations. Her archives collection contains many photographs of meetings held at the Gulfside Assembly, a segregated Mississippi Gulf Coast resort.

01/28/2015

Such interesting history! Our Muriel Belton Boyd collection contains many photographs of the Gulfside Assembly, a segregated resort located in Waveland, Mississippi.

A postcard of Gulfside Assembly in Waveland, Mississippi, undated. In 1923, Robert Elijah Jones, a Methodist Episcopalian clergyman, founded Gulfside. It served as the first recreational area along the Gulf Coast that was accessible to African Americans.