Southern University Shreveport Louisiana Archives

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Southern University-Shreveport to Host Statewide Forum 'The Future of Louisiana Higher... Louisiana Higher Education forum is set for Thursday night at Southern University-Shreveport

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

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

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.

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."

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!

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

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.

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!

SUSLA takes locals back to their roots Genealogy workshops help residents discover ancestry.

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.

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.