Speakers and Platform Guests at the Graduation Exercises of the Bowman Barber School Held at the War Memorial Building Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.
John R. Lewis (1940- ). Congressman - Georgia. Class of 1967. Led the march across the Edmund Peters Bridge on March 7, 1965 in Selma, Alabama. Involved in sit-in movement in Nashville, Freedom rides and the March on Washington.
Miner Teachers College;
Miner Teachers College -- Fraternities and Sororities;
Kappa Alpha Psi
Kappa Alpha Psi -- Beta Kappa chapter of Kappa Psi was established February 21, 1940 under the direction of Grand Polemarch, James E. Scott; Junior Grand Board Member, Wendell Lucas; Provincial Polemarch, James M. Coggs, and Founders: James Mack,...
Miner Teachers College;
Miner Teachers College -- Fraternities and Sororities
Phi Sigma Phi Sorority – Phi Sigma Phi Sorority was organized in 1940 by eight women at Miner Teachers College for the propose of promoting greater love and friendship among the women of the College.
Miner Teachers College; Miner Teacher College -- libraries
During the 1940s, the library enjoyed improved financial support. It received an appropriation, which was supplemented with funds from the Student Cooperative Fund.
College presidents – Washington (D.C.) -- Miner Teachers College;
Miner Teachers College;
Miner Teachers College -- Presidents;
Whitehead, Matthew
Matthew Whitehead (1918-1990) was the last president of the Miner Teachers College, before it merged with Wilson Teachers College to become part of the District of Columbia Teachers College, in 1954 in the aftermath of the US Supreme Court’s...
African American soldiers--Hospitals; Coolidge, Calvin, 1872 - 1933; Moton, Robert Russa, 1867 - 1940; Tuskegee Institute
From Left to Right:
Dr. Wm. Chaa. White, General Hartley A. Moon, General Robert E. Steiner, Lieutenant Governor McDowell, Governor W.W. Brandon, Vice-President Calvin Coolidge, Dr. Robert R. Moton, Honorable Edward Clifford, & the Honorable C....
Zora Neale Hurston (standing), a famous African-American novelist, playwright, folklorist and anthropologist at a North Carolina College for Negroes football game. Zora Hurston was a professor in the Drama Department at North Carolina College for...
