By: Ellison, David (Commissioner Pct 1)

Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis, Texas Southern University and the art community on Tuesday, Oct. 7 honored the legacy of the late Dr. John Biggers, founder of TSU’s art department, by unveiling two murals replicating his paintings. ThThe unveiling also celebrated the activism of the TSU students who held Houston’s first civil rights movement sit-in at a Houston grocery store in 1960.

“Today we celebrate two kinds of courage that changed Harris County: the vision of Dr. John Biggers and resolve of TSU students who sat down at a lunch counter so all of us could stand taller,” Commissioner Ellis said. “Those students were: Deanna Lott, Guy Boudouis, John Hutchins, Jessis Parvis, Curtis Graves, Holly and Pete Hogrobrooks, Clarence Coleman, Edd

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