Dr. Alfonso Elder and Dr. James E. Shepard conversing with Miss Nannie Helen Burroughs and Mrs. Catherine Ruth Edwards in front of B. N. Duke Auditorium. Miss Nannie Helen Burroughs helped establish the National Association of Colored Women and...
Dr. Howard Chidley conversing (left to right) with Mrs. Louise H. Elder, wife of President Alfonso Elder, Mrs. Chidley, Dean of Students, James Stewart and Dr. Alfonso Elder in B. N. Duke Auditorium.
Dr. Alfonso Elder (February 26, 1898-August 1974) became the second president of North Carolina College at Durham on January 20, 1948. Dr. Elder previously served as head of the Graduate Department of Education and also had served as the Dean of...
Scene From "All My Sons", by Arthur Miller and Under the Direction of Dr. Thomas E. Poag. From left to Right: Alfonso Sherman, Madelyn E. Brewer, Inez Crutchfield and Singer Buchanan.
Scene from "Kiss And Tell", A Three Act Comedy, by F. Hugh Herbert on October 29-30, 1951. From Left to Right: Alfonso Sherman, Lottie Morton, Moses Gunn, Barbara Wilhoite, William Cox, Geraldine Paris, William V. Harper, Madelyn Brewer...
A photograph of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Presidents, (seated left to right) Dr. Robert P. Daniel, unknown, Dr. Alfonso Elder, Dr. James A. Boyer, Dr. Jerome H. Holland, and unknown, (standing left to right) Dr. Martin D....
Dr. Alfonso Elder (left to right) greeting MLS Bertha R. Boykin, class of 1951 B.S., class of 1953 in Library Science; Myrtle T. Boykin, class of 1951 B.S., class of 1953 in Library Science; and Thomas E. Boykin class of 1953 M.A. in History. All...
A photograph of students displaying fifty dollar checks given to them by President Alfonso Elder for their earning all A’s during the first semester of the school year. Pictured left to right is Barbara J. Harmon, a freshmen biology major from...
Dr. Walter M. Brown (left) whose P.h. D. in education from North Carolina College in 1955 marked the first time in the United States a P.h.D. was conferred by a Historically Black College or University, is shown receiving degree and congratulations...
