Naomi Mitchell Carrier

Founded a non-profit organization for public education with a mission to research, document, preserve, interpret, and distribute Texas history and culture. She co-authored HCR 254, which recognizes the Underground Railroad from Texas to Mexico and coordinated three forums in collaboration with the National Park Service and Sam Houston Museum in three Texas cities.

Naomi Mitchell Carrier will gave two lectures as a Scholar-in-Residence 2014 on her research about the Texas Reconstruction Era.

Reconstruction Era Texas: Forty Acres and a Mule 

Reconstruction ERA Texas: Scientific Racism’s Influence over Legislation, Hearts, and Minds