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Aaims [sic], Activities and Accomplishments of THREA the Texas Health, Recreation and Encampment Association.
Houston: ca. 1950-1955]. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Some creasing, light foxing and edge wear. Very good. Item #5511
An unrecorded and humbly-produced brochure on the aims, activities, and accomplishments of the Texas Health, Recreation and Encampment Association (THREA), an organization created to assist African Americans in Jim Crow Texas find better health and recreational resources. At the time this work was published, the group's president was Dr. S.E. Warren, a professor at Texas Southern University; the names and positions of the other five officers of the group are printed on the fourth page here. Interestingly, the work also states that the "Executive Committee and Other Committees to be Announced Later." The work itself is organized into the three sections indicated in the title -- the group's aims, activities, and accomplishments. The six aims include helpinglocal groups survey their health and recreational needs, promoting exhibits, films, lectures, and other activities to spread healthy habits, assisting efforts to get more facilities and services, and more. The activities of the group are organized into three main types -- Research and Investigation, Presentation of Health and Recreational Facts, and Directed Programs -- each of which have more specific activities listed beneath them. The nine accomplishments of THREA listed here include inspiring health workers to work with youth, fostering surveys, developing a clinic at Madisonville, operating the Madison County Clinic, sponsoring an encampment (camp) for teenagers with help from leaders at Wiley, Bishop, and Paul Quinn colleges.
The organization is all but lost to history at the present time. Searches of newspaper records find just a few notices of the group in Houston papers in the 1950s. One such mention in the February 28, 1954 issue of The Houston Post advertises a benefit concert for THREA at Phillis Wheatley High School, where "All proceeds will go to finance the associations's activities, which are devoted to health and recreational improvements in Texas." We could locate no other works by this organization anywhere.
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