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Mollie Taylor Stevenson Jr.

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Education and volunteer work
Ranch life
References
External links

Mollie Taylor Stevenson Jr. (1946) is a former model who, along with her mother, Mollie Taylor Stevenson Sr., were the first living African-American women inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame. She also received the Chester A. Reynolds Memorial Award, one of only two women to have received the honor; the other being Connie Douglas Reeves.^[1] Mollie Jr. founded the American Cowboy Museum which is located on the Taylor-Stevenson Ranch, an historic working ranch located near Houston, originally purchased in 1875 by her great grandfather, Edward Ruthven Taylor. The ranch is among the oldest African American-owned ranches in the United States.^[2]

Education and volunteer work

Mollie Jr. graduated from Houston's Jack Yates High School in 1963, and attended Texas Southern University for four years with a business major. She worked as a model for 15 years, and managed her schedule to allow time for volunteer work with "the black trail riding and rodeo associations, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and the Black Landowners Association". She has been interviewed on radio and TV, for newspapers, and for magazines including Texas Highways, Ebony, and Essence, having been portrayed as "a woman in a nontraditional occupation". Mollie is also a charter member of the Speakers and Black Go Texan Committee, the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, the Professional Black Cowboy & Cowgirl Association, the Landowners of Texas, and the Diamond L Riding & Roping Club.^[3]

Ranch life

She and all her family manage a ranch with horses, cattle, hay production and oil. She often organizes the tours held at the ranch for children to be able to communicate with various ranch animals. ^[4]

Molie founded the American Cowboy Museum on her family’s Texas ranch in order to acquaint the others with the role that has been played by blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and women in the West history. ^[5] Her mother died in 2003 but she would have been proud to know that her daughter goes on to develop the legacy of her grandparents.

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/awards-halls-of-fame/4574-2/| title=Chester A. Reynolds Awards| accessdate=14 May 2017}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.texashighways.com/the-magazine/item/6240-how-the-west-was-won|title=How the West Was Won| publisher=Texas Department of Transportation | last=Heinkel-Wolfe|first=Peggy| date=13 July 2012 | accessdate=8 May 2017}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://genmaspeaks.blogspot.gr/2014/07/cowboys-of-color-mollie-taylor.html/|title=Cowboys of Color: Mollie Taylor-Stevenson, Jr. on Living Your Best Life with Genma Holmes|accessdate=February 1, 2018}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/native-texan/article/Historic-ranch-lies-in-Houston-s-shadow-4638390.php/|title=Historic ranch lies in Houston's shadow|publisher=Houston Chronicle|accessdate=February 1, 2018}}
5. ^[https://www.americancowboy.com/ranch-life-archive/mollie-stevenson-jr/ Mollie Stevenson, Jr.] Retrieved on 1 Feb 2018

External links

[https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/arb01 Texas State Historical Association]

National Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame
American Cowboy Museum
National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum

3 : Cowgirl Hall of Fame inductees|African-American people|Ranchers from Texas

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