Paine Institute Held Its First Class On January 1, 1884, In Rented Quarters On Broad Street in Augusta, GA. Among The First Group Of Young People Present That Morning Was John Wesley Gilbert, Who Stepped Ahead Of The Others And Enrolled As The...
Dr. James E. Shepard standing with Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. outside Benjamin Newton Duke Auditorium. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. was a civil rights leader, co-founder of the National Negro Congress, and succeeded his father as Pastor of...
Dr. Aaron McDuffie Moore was one of the six incorporators of the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua, now North Carolina Central University. Dr. Aaron Moore a graduate of Shaw University was Durham’s first black doctor. Dr. Moore...
Marian Anderson, one of the greatest singers in her day performed several times at North Carolina College for Negroes, now North Carolina Central University, as a part of the Lyceum Series in 1932, 1942, and 1946. Marian Anderson was the first...
L. D. DeSimone Leads Morehouse School of Medicine National Campaign. Black Medical Schools Form South African Health Care Initiative. Maya Angelou is the Speaker at the National Medical Association Conference. Jehni Robinson, Student, Effects...
Lincoln University Pennsylvania, Yearbook, Students, Faculty
Yearbook. Pre-Title Page: If the Son Shall Make You Free Ye Shall Be Free Indeed (Same Image as 1953 Lion – Statue of A. Lincoln With African American Child), The Lion 1959. Title Pages (Double-Page Spread): The Lincoln University 1959 Lion,...
Lincoln University Pennsylvania, Yearbook, Students, Faculty
Yearbook. Pre-Title Page: If the Son Shall Make You Free, Ye Shall Be Free Indeed [Photo of Statue of A. Lincoln With African American Child. Title Pages (Double Page Spread): The Lion Nineteen Hundred Fifty Three, Published By the Senior Class of...
Photo of Lincoln University Student Production of Julius Caesar, With Women's Roles Played By Cheyney Students. Photo Also Used on Cover of The Lincoln University Bulletin, Winter 1951.
Ashmun Institute, Lincoln University (PA), Nineteenth Century African American Higher Education
Notebook Containing Handwritten Notes About Ashmun Institute and Lincoln University Events, Personnel and Students (in Isaac Norton Rendall's Handwriting) From 1853 Through 1879; Back Cover Has Information About Graduates Through 1907. Date...
Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, Nineteenth Century African American Higher Education
Date Uncertain, But May Be 1877. The Stone Chapel Behind Students Was Destroyed in a Hurricane in 1878. Class of 1877 Was Approximately 22 Students, According to I.N. Rendall's Notebook (see 1907 Rendall Notebook).
Dr. Alonzo G. Moron Was the Eighth President of Hampton Institute and the First African American to Hold the Position at the School. He Served From 1948-1959. He Was Also the First Hampton Institute Graduate to Become President of the School.
Hazel R. O'Leary (1937- ). Administrator. Class of 1959. First African American and first female U.S. Secretary of Energy (1993-1997). Served under President Clinton. Presently, the fourteenth President of Fisk University.
St. Elmo Brady (1884-1961). Educator, chemist. Class of 1908. First African American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1916. Developed the chemistry departments at Fisk, Tuskegee, Howard and Tougaloo.
Bennett College -- Campus Building; Buildings; College Buildings; Seminary; Halls
Bennett Seminary During the Late 1800's. Two Buidlings are Bennett Hall and Carolina Hall. The Money From Carolina Hall was Donated by the African American Citizens of North Carolina.
