Mollie, Jr.'s family ranch is 150 year working ranch. Listen to Mollie, Jr. share about her great-grandmother, a former slave, who Mollie, Jr. has a copy of her slave papers. Mollie, Jr. parents were HBCU educated who became entrepreneurial ranchers. Hear her share about her mother, Fisk University grad, and her father, a Tuskegee graduate, and how they started the first Black owned airport and aviation school in the country, Sky Ranch, on their land.
Mollie, Jr. will also discuss keeping your family land, farm work ethnic, educating children about the west, and why it is important to know your country and family's history. This lively interview will be entertaining and educational as you learn more about our country's western heritage.
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National Multicultural Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Banquet
More About Mollie Taylor-Stevenson, Jr.
Mollie's
parents believed that education was very important, they not only educated
their own children, but countless others with food, books, tuition payments and
entire college educations. Mollie, Jr., worked as a professional model in
Houston, Kansas City and New York, but she was drawn back home where she worked
side by side with her mother to preserve their legacy. She established the
American Cowboy Museum, a 501(c)(3) organization in 1987. It honors the
contributions to Western culture of African Americans, Hispanics, Native
Americans, and women.
Mollie
Jr. is a 1963 graduate of Houston's Jack Yates High School and attended Texas
Southern University as a business major from 1963-1967. For 15 years, Stevenson
worked as a professional model. The busy rancher and museum director finds
time to volunteer for the black trail riding and rodeo associations, the
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and the Black Landowners Association. She has
appeared in numerous radio, television and newspaper interviews, and has been
featured as a woman in a nontraditional occupation in such magazines as Texas
Highways, Ebony, and Essence.
Mollie, Jr. is also a journalist
and an active volunteer with the Sugar Shack Trailride and various other rodeo
trailride associations. Mollie has been honored by numerous schools as a
motivational speaker and event coordinator. She is also a charter member of the
Speakers and Black Go Texan Committee of the Houston Livestock Show &
Rodeo, the Professional Black Cowboy & Cowgirl Association, the Landowners
of Texas, and her favorite, the Diamond L Riding & Roping Club.
To
acquaint a new generation with this rich history, Mollie offers school tours,
leather crafts for visiting children, lectures, a traveling exhibit with a
quilt display, horseback riding, a mobile petting zoo, and living history
presentations. She also encourages young people to consider careers in
agribusiness and land ownership and sponsors FFA and 4-H students.
Mollie and her mother are the first living African-Americans
inducted in The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth.
Photos: Submitted by Mollie Taylor-Stevenson, Jr.
ethnic
and cultural studies at Prairie State College, South Suburban College,
and Governors State University. Burton spent ten years at Loyola
University as Assistant Dean of Students and Director of African
American Student Affairs. Burton was the Director of Student Development/Minority
Affairs at Columbia College in Chicago for seven years. He is currently
a professor of History at South Suburban College in South Holland,
IL. He is a recipient of the “Living Black History “ Award. In 1983
and 1990 he was selected as an “Outstanding Young Man of America”
in recognition of professional achievement, superior leadership ability,
and service to the community. As author of Black, Red and Deadly,
he has been interviewed by radio and television hosts and was featured
in the November 1994 issue of Emerge magazine. His book is being
considered for a feature film on African- Americans in the West.
Initiated by Burton, the major character in the book, Bass Reeves,
Deputy U.S. Marshall, was inducted into the National Cowboy Hall
of Fame in Oklahoma City.
