Hazel Harvey Peace Scholarship Fund - Our History

Mrs. Hazel Harvey Peace, an I. M. Terrell graduate, was employed as an English/Speech Instructor and Assistant Principal at I. M. Terrell High School in Fort Worth, Texas for 49 years. During some of this time, she also was the editor of the Texas Standard, the official publication of the Teachers State Association of Texas.

Her community activities are various and are widely known throughout the city. In 2000, the Fort Worth Public Library Foundation named a newly constructed youth center after Mrs. Peace. The 33,000 square-foot addition has a Discovery Theatre, a Read-to Me Corner, a Computer Bridge, a Reading Train and other services for children up to 14 years of age. During the dedication of the addition to the library, many references were made to her years of service for social justice and her advocacy for the homeless.

The I. M. Terrell Class of 1965 was so impressed by the influence on the students whose lives were touched by Mrs. Hazel Harvey Peace that a scholarship program was established bearing her name. Currently, a total of one hundred-fourteen scholarships have been awarded in an effort to continue the legacy of Mrs. Hazel Harvey Peace and the historic I. M. Terrell High School (1921-1973), Fort Worth's first African-American high school.