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...
First Girls Drill Team
Commanded by: Leola Martin, Sophomore, Mosspoint, Mississippi
Ex Officer
Janet Houston 1st Sergeant, Sophomore
Made first public performance at Homecoming game in 1957.
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...
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...
Bennett College -- Campus Building; College Buildings; Buildings; Library
Kent Hall Was Established in 1884 to Educate Young Black Girls in the Domestic Arts of a Christian Home. This Buiding Also Served as the Library for the College Until 1939.
African Americans -- Education;
Miner Normal School;
Miner Teachers College;
Mytrilla Miner;
Teachers, Training of
Illustration of Myrtilla Miner (1815-1864), founder of the Miner School, which became Miner Teachers College. Miss Miner was a native of New York, and had also taught planters’ daughters in Mississippi. Miss Miner became determined to improve the...
Mayberry, Emma N. [Nesbit]; Home economics teachers--Louisiana; Southern University and A & M College--Faculty
Black and white portrait of Emma N. Mayberry, Southern University's first Director of Home Economics. She also started the first sorority chapter on the campus of Southern in 1932. This sorority is: Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
