Scanned From Photocopies From Pages in Newspaper Clipping File in Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, PA, Which Also Has Clipping Files in Microfilm.
Freedom fighter; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
John Henry Hill was born a slave in King and Queen County, Virginia, in March 1828. He escaped from the institution of slavery in 1853 and fled to Canada. He was very active in the Underground Railroad movement in Canada. After the Civil War...
Members of Senate; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
Member of the Virginia Senate 1871-1873, and again from 1877-1887. He represented York County. He was also a member of the First Board of Visitors of Virginia State University and the first treasurer.
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...
African American; Educator; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
He was the first science teacher at the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute now Virginia State University. Mr. Colson was an 1883 graduate of Dartmouth College. He served as acting principal in 1885 replacing the first principal James...
African American; Legislator; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
Delegate Peter J. Carter 1844-1888, was born a slave in Northhampton County, Virginia. He was elected first Rector of the Board of Visitors of Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute on February 15, 1883.
Secretary; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
Charles James Daniel was born in Orange County, Virginia. Before coming to the Institute he had studied at Howard University, and was a graduate of the Richmond Institute in 1878. He taught school in Louisa County, Virginia, and from 1882 to...
Graduating Class; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
The graduating class of 1907. George Lewis Alphonso Pogue is standing second from the right in the next to last row, with female graduates to his right and left. The one to his right (third from right on that row) is holding a hat with 1907...
Sports; Football; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
The football team for 1907. Standing on the top row, second from the left is George Lewis Alphonso Pogue of Fincastle in Botetourt County. He was President of the Athletic Association on campus. Standing beside him in the derby hat is Professor...
Mother of the College; Virginia State College for Negroes
Cora Z. Jones came to Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute in 1888. Over the years she served as the matron for the girls, nurse and in general the mother of the college. She was from Louisa County, Virginia, and the dining hall at Virginia...
Lincoln University Pennsylvania, yearbook, students, faculty
Yearbook. Title page: The 1940 Lion, Presented By the Senior Class, Lincoln University, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Microfilming and Digitization Funded By a Grant From the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC).
A Community Related Living Program
During 1948-1949 Southern University initiated a community related living program in the Bonn community which was located about fifteen miles from the campus. This program was designed to vitalize teaching at...
Thomas Rutling was born in Wilson County, Tennessee in 1854. His father and brother were sold away from him before he was two years old. He stated on the plantation until 1865, when he moved to Nashville and soon after went to Fisk.
Henry Allen Boyd Was Editor of Nashville Globe Newspaper From 1905-1959. Napier and Boyd Successfully Helped to Persuade the State to Build the Negro State Normal School in Davidson County. A Member of the Nashville's Negro Board of Trade, Boyd...
Miner, Myrtilla
Miner Normal School
Moten, Lucy
School principals -- Washington (D.C.) -- Miner Normal School
The prominent African American educator, Dr. Lucy Moten (1851-1933), was the first African American principal of Miner Normal School. She served in this capacity from 1883 until 1921. At the time she was principal, Miner was a two-year public...
The North Carolina Symphony Orchestra performing for city and county school children at a Children’s Concert program held at North Carolina College gymnasium.
