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...
A photograph of wives of personalities associated with North Carolina Central University buildings, (left to right) Mrs. Bascom T. Baynes, Mrs. William H. Robinson, Mrs. Albert N. Whiting, Mrs. C. T. Willis Sr., and Mrs. James S. Lee.
College presidents – Washington (D.C.) -- Wilson Teachers College;
Hager, Walter;
Wilson Teachers College;
Wilson Teachers College -- Presidents
Dr. Walter E. Hager (1895-1990) was appointed president of Wilson Teachers College in 1941. He earned is Bachelors in Science from the University of Nebraska in 1916; his A.M. from Columbia University in 1927, and his PhD from Columbia University...
This building named in honor of Dr. William Jones, chair of the interim committee appointed to spearhead North Carolina College at Durham following the resignation of Dr. Samuel Massie as president. This building served as the college library from...
W. J. Hale, the First President of Tennesse Agricultural and Industrial State Normal School (Now Tennessee State University), Was Married to the Former Hattie E. Hodgkins in 1913. He Is Pictured Here With His Wife and Young Daughter. They Also Had...
This building was named in honor of Dr. William Harrison Robinson, a long-time teacher and chairman in the Department of Physics from 1937 to 1962. The William Harrison Robinson Science building was constructed in 1937 and renovated in 1970.
This building was named in honor of William Gaston Pearson, a businessmen, educator, an incorporator of the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua, and one of the original organizers of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. ...
William Gaston Pearson was one of the six incorporators of the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua, now North Carolina Central University. William G. Pearson was an educator and successful businessman. Mr. Pearson was the principal...
Virginia Flintall, kneeling, a student from Manhattan, New York, demonstrates for (left to right) Bonnie Broadway, Oakboro, N.C.; Sarah Franklin, Durham, N.C.; and Mary Spivey, Montclair, N.J. These students participated in a water show at North...
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963). Scholar, sociologist, poet, novelist, essayist. Class of 1888. Founder and editor of Crisis and Phylon. Authored the American classic, The Souls of Black Folk (1903).
Louis Jordan with unidentified woman holding the victory football from the 1947 Capital Classic football game between North Carolina College at Durham and Tennessee State. The football has an inscription that signifies North Carolina College’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....
Brown, Ronald H., 1941-1996;
Carter, Lisle;
University of the District of Columbia;
The first press conference upon the announcement of the creation of the university of the District of Columbia, picturing incoming UDC president Lisle Carter and Ronald H. Brown, Chair of the University’s Board of Trustees. UDC was founded as...
United States Department of Defense Presents The Tennessee State Players Guild of Tennessee State University in "Rhythm Time", A Two-Act Variety Show, by Thomas E. Poag on European Tour, April-May, 1970.
Southern University and A & M College--Students; Activists; Riots & demonstrations;
A.) Point at which students were felled
B.) State Police Tactical Squad
C.) Sheriff's Tactical Squad
D.) Sheriff Squad # 2
E.) Sheriff Squad # 3
F.) Sheriff Squad # 4
G.) Campus Security Squad
H.) State Police Armored Car
I.) Route of Sate Police...
Drama clubs; Students; Teachers; Universities & colleges;
Dr. Thomas E. Poag and Tennessee State Player Guild Member Leave on European Tour Visiting Germany, Belgium, Holland and Italy While Acting in "Rhythm Time".
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 June 1883, no. 1.
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 January, 1888 no. 4.
