Joseph Alphonso “Joe” Pierce Jr. was a lifelong advocate for Black history and culture, and a collector of Black literature and art.
We know you value our education reporting. We need your help in raising $20,000 to hire a reporter dedicated to covering higher education in San Antonio.During a lifetime of dedication to medicine, literature, arts and sports, Joseph Alphonso “Joe” Pierce Jr. quietly changed the culture of San Antonio.
He was then transferred to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, and the newlyweds relocated to Texas, a homecoming of sorts for Joseph Pierce, who was born in Marshall. His parents Juanita George Pierce and Joseph A. Pierce, Sr. taught at Wiley College before following their academic careers to Michigan and finally to Texas Southern University.
While in Europe, Aaronetta Pierce said, the two traveled extensively. “I joined my husband, and he showed me the world,” she said. Throughout his medical career, Joseph Pierce maintained his interests as a collector of art and literature, amassing a collection of nearly 6,000 books by Black authors including rare first editions, and a collection of porcelain, glass and pewter steins influenced by his time in Germany.
Former mayor Henry Cisneros, who appointed Aaronetta Pierce as inaugural chair of the MLK Commission in 1986, said of the couple, “Together have been one of San Antonio’s most dynamic duos for decades,” and that their generosity, advocacy and dignity “have been beacons for our city.”While Aaronetta Pierce was the outgoing, public face of the couple and Joseph Pierce was quieter, McDermott
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