African American; Principal; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
Ida M. Harris was the first female administrator at what is now Virginia State University. She was originally from Fairfax County, Virginia. She was very involved in the development of African American Education in Virginia after the War of the...
The Baton Rouge Academy, an institution sponsored by the Fourth District Missionary Baptist Association of Louisiana for black boys and girls. In 1892, a suggestion was made that the Fourth District Association purchase a tract of land for...
Page 1 of History of the Teaching faculty employed at Southern University from its relocation in New Orleans along with their specialized field or department in which they served at Southern.
Sports; Football; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
This appears to be a photograph of the men who won letters at the University in 1919. Standing at the rear, is Thomas Puryear, Dean of Men and Assistant Coach, and to the right top row was Gideon Smith, Head Coach.
Sports; Football; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
The 1923 Football Team coached by Harry C. Graves, standing, rear on the left. On the right side standing is the Dean of Men at Virginia State University at that time, Thomas Livingston Puryear, who was listed as assistant coach.
John Edwin Settle earned a B.S. in Agriculture from the Univeristy of Idaho and became the Assistant Professor of Animal Husbandry at Virginia State College for Negroes in 1929.
Lincoln University Pennsylvania, Yearbook, Students, Faculty
Yearbook. Title Page: The Lion, Presented By the Senior Class of Lincoln University, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, Co-Editors - Ronald Butler, Carl Frederick, Assistant Co-Editor: Clarence Mattison. Microfilming and Digitization Funded By the...
Some of North Carolina College’s librarians and english faculty examine a truckload of recent library acquisitions during a joint meeting of the James E. Shepard Memorial Library Staff and the Department of English. Perusing the acquisitions are...
District Of Columbia Teachers College;
District Of Columbia Teachers College--Faculty;
Whitehead, Matthew
Associate Director Matthew Whitehead (1918-1990) was the last President of Miner Teachers College, and Dean of DCTC. He received his AB from Johnson C. Smith University; his MA from Teachers College, Columbia University; Ed.D, New York University....
Cooke, Paul;
College presidents – Washington (D.C.) -- District of Columbia Teachers College;
District Of Columbia Teachers College;
District Of Columbia Teachers College – Presidents
Dr. Paul P. Cooke, was the third president of DCTC and served from 1966 through 1974.
Dr. Cooke has lived in the District of Columbia since 1921, when his family moved from Harlem, New York. He graduated from Dunbar High School. He earned a BA...
Olympian champion, Lee Calhoun (second from left) and head track and field coach LeRoy Walker admire track and field trophy winnings. Lee Calhoun was a gold medalist in the 110-meter at the 1956 Games in Melbourne, Australia. In 1961, Lee Calhoun...
As part of the centennial celebration of Myrtilla Miner founding the school, Miner Teacher College officials and descendants of Ms. Miner held a ceremony at her gravesite, at Oak Hill Cemetery, in Georgetown. Dr. Garnet Wilkinson, First Assistant,...
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...
Jones, John S. [Sebastian], 1872-1959;
Louisiana Colored Teachers' Association;
African Americans--Education--Louisiana; Southern University and A & M College--Administration
Portrait of John Sebastian Jones, first Dean of Southern University in Baton Rouge.
The bulletin of Atlanta University was a publication sent to faculty, friends and alumni of the institution; Telling of the institution's progress and present needs. This issue is April 1898, no. 91.
