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We were unable to vote on our Proposed 2020 Budget in February. Therefore, we will be voting on the budget at the March meeting. We encourage all members to attend.
Our speaker for the evening will be Rodney Lamer Atkins. He will speak about African American Veterans from Smith County.
Rodney Lamar Atkins is the founder and pastor of the Victory Temple Church of God in Christ. He serves as the 1st Vice-President of the International Sunday School Department of the Church of God in Christ. He retired from the City of Tyler Public Library as a librarian after 25 years of service. Rodney Atkins is the Library Director at Jarvis Christian College. He has written several books on African America History and Smith County, Texas. The books include “Remembering When We Were Colored in Tyler, Texas” Volumes 1 and 2; “African American Life in Tyler, Texas.” and co-author of the book, “Encyclopedia of African American Rural Life in Smith County.” His latest book is “Texas African American Soldiers of the 1960’s and 1970’s”

Our meetings are open to the public and are held upstairs in the Payne Auditorium in the historic Carnegie Library building, 125 S. College Ave. in Downtown Tyler.

Social from 6:30 – 7:00 PM

 

Meeting/Program starts at 7:00 PM