Courtesy of the TSU Mickey Leland Digital Archive After spending six years in state government, Leland was elected to the 18th Congressional District in 1978. His work was highly lauded by state ...

Mickey Leland's wanderlust led him across the globe, often to sub-saharan Africa to see countries like Sudan, Tanzania and Ethiopia. Instead of returning to Houston jubilant from seeing the world ...

Mickey Leland (1944-1989) The vocal Houston civil rights leader from Fifth Ward attended Texas Southern University, earning his Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy in 1970.

Mickey Leland actively speaking into a microphone. 1971. George Thomas "Mickey" Leland November 27, 1944–August 7, 1989 . When the Texas House of Representatives met in January 1973, three of ...

Mickey Leland may have meant well. But the best that can be said of him is that his intentions were better than his deeds. Originally Published: August 17, 1989 at 1:00 AM CDT.

Rep. mickey Leland in Houston, circa June 1978. Mickey Leland, a Democratic congressman from Texas 18th District, died Aug. 7, 1989 at age 44 when a plane he was on crashed during a mission trip ...

Allison Leland, Mickey's late wife, said it's comforting to know his legacy is being kept alive. "For me, Mickey has always been a beautiful mosaic and pieces of a puzzle continuously put together.

A short while ago, George Thomas “Mickey” Leland was supposed to turn 77. His life was cut short many decades ago, when he died died at the age of 45, in a plane crash in Ethiopia, on August 7 ...

Searchers on Sunday found the wreckage of Rep. Mickey Leland’s plane scattered on a rugged mountainside in southwestern Ethiopia, six days after it disappeared. All 16 people aboard the plane… ...

The widow of U.S. Rep. Mickey Leland has filed a suit against the maker of the plane that crashed in Africa two years ago, killing Leland and 15 others. Alison Leland filed the suit along with Patr… ...

Mickey Leland, the Texas congressman killed in a plane crash in Ethiopia, was a black militant who traded in his dashiki for a three-piece business suit and learned to operate inside the American ...

The Mickey Leland Federal Building, left, was renovated in a project valued at $88 million, the General Services Administration says. Aker Imaging. 1919 Smith before renovations. Gensler.