Items from the collection of Thomas Wyatt, an Austin-based publisher, including issues of The Black Registry of Austin's Businesses. Thomas' father, Tommie L. Wyatt, and his wife Barbara founded The Black Registry in 1969.

Biographical Note

Tommie L. Wyatt is an Austin based publisher, best known for his newspaper The Villager, a paper focused on providing news to and about Austin’s black communities, and the Black Register Publishing Company that helped provided information on local black owned businesses.

Additional Resources

More about Tommie L. Wyatt's history within the African-American community of Austin, Texas, may be found in "Our Community, Our Voice: Photographs from The Villager Newspaper" online at the Austin History Center.



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Cite This Collection

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Thomas Wyatt Collection in The Portal to Texas History. University of North Texas Libraries. https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/TLWC/ accessed May 9, 2024.



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