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Building Community in Houston: Alice Baker, Julia Ideson, and Ima Hogg

Building Community in Houston: Alice Baker, Julia Ideson, and Ima Hogg - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Kate Sayen KirklandPublish date:2/3/2026Pages:496
Language:EnglishPublisher:Texas A&M University PressISBN-13:9781648432620ISBN-10:164843262XUPC:9781648432620Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Women, Social ActivistsProduct ID:SCD4W0VEG7

Kate Sayen Kirkland's Building Community in Houston: Alice Baker, Julia Ideson, and Ima Hogg presents three Houston women who used their family, financial, and aspirational capital to bring social justice to citizens of a rapidly growing Southern city from 1903 to 1975. Their inclusive civic service and philanthropy paved the way for Houston's desegregation and laid the foundation for the city'...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Texas A&M University PressISBN-13:9781648432620ISBN-10:164843262XUPC:9781648432620Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Women, Social ActivistsProduct ID:SCD4W0VEG7

KATE SAYEN KIRKLAND has participated in Houston's nonprofit sector for many years. She is the author of The Hogg Family and Houston: Philanthropy and the Civic Ideal and Captain James A. Baker of Houston, 1857-1941, which received the Texas Institute of Letters award for the Most Significant Scholarly Book and won honorable mention for the Texas State Historical Association's Coral Horton Tulli...

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

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