Maggie Porter was born on February 24, 1853 in Lebanon, Tennessee. Her master was wealthy and as her mother was a favorite house servant, she saw little of the harsher side of slavery. She entered Fisk in 1866.
Sports; High School; Basketball; Community Involvement; Virginia State College for Negroes
The 1946 basketball tournament winners from Maggie Walker High School in Richmond, Virginia. The game was played at Virginia State College for Negroes now Virginia State University.
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...
The bulletin of Atlanta University was a publication sent to faculty, friend and alumni of the institution; Telling of the institution's progress and present needs. This issue is June 1906, no. 165.
The bulletin of Atlanta University was a publication sent to faculty, friend and alumni of the institution; Telling of the institution's progress and present needs. This issue is February 1904, no. 143.
The bulletin of Atlanta University was a publication sent to faculty, friend and alumni of the institution; Telling of the institution's progress and present needs. This issue is April 1903, no. 136.
The bulletin of Atlanta University was a publication sent to faculty, friend and alumni of the institution; Telling of the institution's progress and present needs. This issue is November 1902, no. 131.
Left to right seated: B.W. Thomas, Julia Jackson, Ella Sheppard, Georgia Gordon, Thomas Rutling. Left to right standing: Maggie L. Porter, F.J. Loudin, H.D. Alexander, Jennie Jackson.
Left to right standing: Patti Malone, George Barrett, Mattie Lawrence, C.W. Payne, F.J. Loudin, B.W. Thomas, Mabel Lewis, Jennie Jackson. Left to right seated: Ella Sheppard, Maggie Porter, Laura Wells.
B.W. Thomas, Julia Jackson, Maggie Porter, Ella Sheppard, F.J. Loudin, Hinton Alexander, Georgia Gordon, Jennie Jackson, America Robinson, Thomas Rutling.
Painted in 1873 by Edmund Havel, Queen Victoria's court painter. Left to right (men): Benjamin Holmes, Isaac Dickerson, Thomas Rutling, Edmund Watkins, Left to right (women): Mabel Lewis, Minnie Tate, Ella Sheppard, Jennie Jackson, Julia Jackson,...
Left to right: Minnie Tate, Greene Evans, Isaac Dickerson, Jennie Jackson, Maggie Porter, Ella Sheppard, Thomas Rutling, Benjamin Holmes, Eliza Walker.